id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9026 Unaccustomed Earth - Wikipedia .html text/html 2353 208 75 Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri. The title of the collection is taken from a passage in "The Custom-House," the preface to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.[3] 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 Deirdre obsessively calls the house and Paul learns that she is a lover of Farouk currently in Vancouver; he decides to not tell this to Sang when she returns. Writing in The New York Times, Liesl Schillinger says, "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."[4] Hirsh Sawhney, writing for The Guardian, believes that Lahiri "is at core an old-guard New England writer. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9026.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9026.txt