While browsing through the new edition of my favourite magazine I stumbled upon the books page and discovered that my much-loved and all-time favourite author has just released her latest collection of short stories. Jhumpa Lahiri is a master story-teller. I dream of writing like her (one day very soon). If you haven’t read any of her work then go and get yourself this, curl up in a warm place and get to know Lahiri’s beautiful characters. Tonight I plan to be sitting on the couch, blanket over my feet, tea in one hand, Unaccustomed Earth in the other. I plan on making this one last…reading only a few pages at a time. Re-reading inspiring sentences. On my business card I have written “threading words together”… I imagine that Jhumpa Lahiri has threaded each of her words together with gold silk. This is how special her stories are.