Unaccustomed Earth

I recently finished Unaccustomed Earth by Juhmpa Lahiri and was captured by the eight stories she has put together in this book. Here's a review in the NY Times. The review seemed to have even made it better in retrospect.

"Lahiri handles her characters without leaving any fingerprints. She allows them to grow as if unguided, as if she were accompanying them rather than training them through the espalier of her narration. Reading her stories is like watching time-lapse nature videos of different plants, each with its own inherent growth cycle, breaking through the soil, spreading into bloom or collapsing back to earth."