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Afternoon Reading - Unaccustomed Earth

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Stories from a brilliant new collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri exploring the dark secrets of family life, all linked by the Bengali immigrant experience

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Afternoon Reading - Unaccustomed Earth - Hell-Heaven

A lonely Indian mother, living in America, meets a charismatic young immigrant, who transports her back to a time before her marriage. But her infatuation proves dangerous.

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Afternoon Reading - Unaccustomed Earth - Once in a Lifetime

Stories from a collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. Two Indian immigrant families, reunited in suburban Massachusetts, recall the time they were last together.

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Afternoon Reading - Unaccustomed Earth - Unaccustomed Earth, part 1

Stories from a collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. When Ruma's mother dies, neither she nor her father knows how to fill the void. Read by Indira Varma.

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Afternoon Reading - Unaccustomed Earth - Unaccustomed Earth, part 2

Stories from a collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. When Ruma's mother dies, neither she nor her father knows how to fill the void.

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Afternoon Reading - Unaccustomed Earth - Year's End

Stories from a collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. During a Christmas visit to his family home, a young man struggles to accept his widowed father's new young Indian wife.

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