Zoe's review
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Although I enjoyed this book, I never felt close to any of the characters. And then I realized... it's a novel about immigrants and their children, strangers in a strange land, and maybe I was never supposed to get close to the characters. I'd like to think that the author is very talented for keeping this distance between reader and subject in order for us to feel the estrangement, and not that it is an accident.
I would have liked a book told completely from the mother's point of view. She's not the Namesake, but she's the one I most wanted to hear from.
I would have liked a book told completely from the mother's point of view. She's not the Namesake, but she's the one I most wanted to hear from.
