false 7684530 75857 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 36444 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 80234 10442 2002 5 8 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 17:24:57 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 30 21:02:47 -0800 2007 more...]]>