Unaccostomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

When I picked this book, I was under the impression that this will be another banal story of Indians settled in the west and caught up in an identity crisis . But I din't know that I was in for a pleasant surprise. Well ofcourse, there were all the constituents that make up for an Indo-western masala book but the way it was presented was something which was pretty new and amusing to me.

The book is a collection of stories from different walks of our lives.But what ties all the stories together is the fact that each of these stories brings out something interesting from seemingly simple characters and their otherwise un-interesting lives : An old man falling in love again after his wife's death and unable to tell his children , A sister trying to pull her brother out of his addiction without any support from her parents, A woman and a man meeting again after 20 years but unable to decide for good at the right time , the list goes on..... Read it for yourself. If nothing else it will remind you that there are no "lived happily ever after" endings always:-)