Preeti Singh, New Delhi: Unaccustomed Earth is author Jhumpa Lahiri's latest offering. And for all those who missed her short stories, the new book is just for them.

We all have days when we aren't really up for anything except for maybe a good cup of hot chocolate and that's when Jhumpa's latest book, Unaccustomed Earth seems like a good pick.

The Pulitzer Prize winning author is back and her new book has no intellectual strain but loads of brewing emotions. And after her last novel Namesake, she returns to her tried and tested waters of short stories.

Unaccustomed Earth, is much like what the title suggests - characters trying to adapt with unfamiliar ground, discovering relationships and rekindling forgotten bonds.

Treading on her favourite path of stories of Indians living away from their land, Jhumpa's ability to tweak even routine characters with her narration makes you relate with each individual formed on these pages. Their imperfections making them perfect.

Be it the old father in the first story Unaccustomed Earth, who, much to his surprise, discovers a whole new world after his wife's death or the daughter who unexpectedly finds the walls in the father-daughter relationship getting thinner each being is crafted with detail and molded just fine enough to not let creativity distance realism.

Part two of the book predominantly revolves around Hema and Kaushik and their journey in an alien land, getting accustomed to alien culture and alien relationships.

With simple prose, ample imagery and an extra dose of emotions, Jhumpa's Unaccustomed Earth might just be the dream hat-trick.