false 1648483 114760 33917 0618485228 9780618485222 3758 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/33/917/33917-m-1255698245.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/33/917/33917-s-1255698245.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917.The_Namesake 3.90 36447 The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of an arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Ashoke does his best to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son, Gogol, is born, the task of naming him betrays their hope of respecting old ways in a new world. And we watch as Gogol stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
With empathy and penetrating insight, Lahiri explores the expectations bestowed on us by our parents and the means by which we come to define who we are.</DIV>]]> 3670 4.00 80242 10443 2002 2 6 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 09:08:23 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 13 13:39:20 -0700 2007
1. I saw the movie adaptation of this novel before I read the book.
2. I have read, and loved, Interpreter of Maladies.

As much as I tried to put these two substantial forces out of my mind, th...more...]]>