Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth

For Octavio,

for Noor

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

– NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,

"The Custom-House"


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