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"The Uncomfortable Place" is a collection of short stories by Bangladeshi-American female writer Juppa Lahiri. After it was published in April 2008, it ranked first in the fiction category on the New York Times bestseller list. In the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award selection that year, it was awarded the grand prize directly from the shortlist. The judges said it was so good that it had no "real rival". "The Uncomfortable Place" revolves around love, family and friendship, and is divided into five short stories and a trilogy-style novella. It mainly tells the life of the second generation Indian immigrants in European and American society. The problems they face are not only the choice and integration between two cultures, but also the conflicts and knots caused by different concepts between them and their parents' first-generation immigrants. From Mumbai to Seattle, from Calcutta to Rome, they felt the touch of love, the discomfort in a foreign land, the test of marriage and the war between peers. They grew up and took root in a foreign land with loneliness and uneasiness, joy and sadness.

Name is a spell that connects destiny, telling the American dream of an Indian immigrant family; a hardcover version of Juppa Lahiri's first novel, a sensation in the world literary world alongside Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The novel tells the life experience of Gogol, an Indian boy born in the United States, from childhood, adolescence to youth. Gogol's father's name is Ashoke, which means "the one who transcends sorrow"; his mother's name is Ashima, which means "the infinite woman". When Ashoke was young, he suffered a train derailment and survived because of a copy of "The Collected Novels of Gogol". For this reason, when his son was born in the United States, he named his son "Gogol." Gogol has the diligence of an Indian immigrant child and the rebellious personality of an American teenager. As an adult, he has a successful career and has a girlfriend from an upper-class New York family. He wanted to break out of the Indian circle, but in the end he married an Indian girl... After experiencing life and death, reunion and separation, between the East and the West, everyone in the story was torn, struggling, escaping and returning between the two cultures. Where is the real destination?