Moving to a new city can be difficult, adjusting to a new home and meeting new people. Moving to a new country, however, can be much more difficult. Not only are there new people to meet, but immigrants have to adapt to a completely different culture and language. Many find it difficult to assimilate into the new culture, while maintaining the customs and traditions of their old country. One author who writes about immigrant struggles is Jhumpa Lahiri. He heard firsthand stories of the struggle to fit in from his parents, who immigrated from India. Some of his stories are based on his parents' experiences. In the stories "This Blessed House," "The Third and Last Continent," and "Mrs. Sen," Lahiri shows how immigrants' struggle to adapt to an unfamiliar culture can lead to misunderstandings and identity crises. "This Blessed House" is the story of a newly married couple, both second generation Americans. Though both Twinkle and Sanjeev are educated and westernized, their marriage was arranged in the Indian way. Their parents, old friends, had organized the first meeting. They had a long-distance relationship for two months before getting married, in India at their parents' insistence (Lahiri, "Blessed," 142). Before their wedding, Sanjeev buys a house for them in Connecticut. Throughout the house there is a "sizable collection of Christian paraphernalia" (Lahiri, "Blessed," 137). There is a paint-by-number picture of the three wise men, a Jesus trivet, a nativity snow globe, and switch plaques in the bedrooms with biblical scenes on them. “Twinkle is delighted by the array of Christian artifacts she finds in the couple's new home, not because she is particularly religious, but because they amuse her” (Brians)..... middle of paper...... 2010 .Karim, Rezaul. "Jhumpa Lahiri." South Asian Writers in English. Np: np, 2006. N. pag. Literary Resource Center. Network. 26 February 2010. .Lahiri, Jhumpa. "Mrs. Sen." Interpreter of diseases. Boston: Houghton, 1999. 111-135. Press.- - -. “The third and last continent”. Interpreter of diseases. Boston: Houghton, 1999. 173-198. Press.- - -. “This Blessed House”. Interpreter of diseases. Boston: Houghton, 1999. 135-157. Print.Mitra, Madhuparna. "Lahiri is Mrs. Sen's." The Explicator Spring 2006: 185. Literature Resource Center. Network. March 2, 2010. .Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield. “The third and last continent”. Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition. Np: Salem Press, Inc, 2004. Page no. Literary reference center. Network. February 22. 2010. .