Abstract
As Rocío Davis illuminates in his study of contemporary Asian-American literature, the short story cycle epitomizes formal hybridity and enables authors to convey not only personal tensions, but tensions inherent in diasporic identity. In “Hema and Kaushik,” the trilogy in Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri ties the lack of intimacy her characters feel with their hybrid identities as each one experiences a different tangled inheritance of rootedness and drifting. Both title characters seek safety by hiding from the world and only at the end decide to embrace life, revealing the relationships among apparently discrete events and, at the same time, eschewing a genuine sense of resolution.
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