The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

336 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
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Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world — conflicts that ...

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