i have been ravenously reading  Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.

I can't put it down. everything she writes is lyrical and fluid. she reminds me of gabriel garcia marquez or milan kundera.... bur more modern and accessible than both. 

this book is filling these early summer days and making me quite happy.

this is the first sentence to the first short story: "After her mother's death, Ruma's father retired from the pharmaceutical company where he had worked for many decades and began traveling in Europe, a continent he'd never seen. " 

She has the gift of making a reader want to learn more, to follow her wherever the story leads.