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Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Knopf, 333 pages, $25
This collection of eight stories by Jhumpa Lahiri follows her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection — and first book — “Interpreter of Maladies” and her second, the novel “The Namesake.” This book has a powerful emotional resonance that transcends what has been classified as immigrant fiction and instead assumes a universality as characters struggle with authenticity, assimilation and independence. Lahiri is a genius of the miniature stroke and the great arc.