Ruma has left her successful legal career to raise children, and her husband works hard to support the family. The father, a retiree and recent widower, visits his daughter's new home in the suburbs of Seattle. The title story of the book is about the family relationships between three generations: the father, his daughter, Ruma, and her son, Akash. Four of the eight stories ("Hell-Heaven", "Nobody's Business", "Once in a Lifetime", and "Year's End") were previously published in The New Yorker Part One "Unaccustomed Earth" The title of the collection is taken from a passage in "The Custom-House," the preface to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list, where it debuted at #1. As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. It is her second collection of stories, following Interpreter of Maladies (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri.
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