A review by prayushi_sharma
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A

3.75

While the stories are amazingly written, I find them to a touch redundant. I understand that often among anthologies themes across short stories are similar to create an overarching theme for the book but I found that the short stories in this collection all had the same pessimistic outlook. I loved the second and third stories but by the fifth story I got a bit bored by the pacing of the novel and realized  every short story would end more or less on a bitter note.