reading jhumpa lahiri's latest book unaccumstomed earth .The short stories are written with an effortless charm which is her forte.This is  her third book after her debut book of short stories called the interpreter of maladies and her novel the namesake .This pulitzer prize winner's writings about the immigrant Indian in America seems to have  a semiautobiographical tilt.This book has eight short stories divided into two parts.The last three short stories form a novella .The stories all about bengali immigrants  have an old world charm like the writings of tagore or satyajit ray {written again from a child's perspective}.The innocence and the painful angst in the writing give an ironic twist to the stories.The majority of the stories deal with the death  or loss of loved ones especially parents.The author in an interview did mention that she wrote the stories when her in-laws passed away  and that she is insecure about her own parents.(very similar to rowling when she wrote the harry potters -all dealing with death and loss of loved ones).My personal favourite was the novella called hema and kaushik about a young boy and a girl whose lives are inextricably linked  by fate to bring them together time and again to finally  end painfully.ANYONE WHO HAS LIVED LIFE LOVED AND LOST SHOULD READ THE BOOK. Anyone who has read the book may post comments