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The assimilation into a foreign culture, as written by Lahiri, is seamless and at once tortured and difficult for first generation Hyphened-Americans. The story was one that I identified with completely. Reading found me constantly seeing tangible replicas of loved one as I meandered through the pages. A great read.
I liked this book. It was a character sketch, mainly about a son and his parents. It wasn't action-packed, by any means, but I enjoyed the subtleness of the story and the quiet poetry of the author.
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I just read this for the second time and enjoyed it just as much as the first. It's a terrific book on so many levels. Lahiri has a gift of choosing words so perfectly as to make the reader feel the emotions she wants them to feel. It's a story of a pair of Bengali Indian immigrants in an arranged marriage, and their children, particularly their eldest, a son they named Gogol. Named for his father's favorite author, Gogol goes through life straddling the immigrant/American line. Like a normal te
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Brilliant. The kind of book that makes me want to write.
Aug 07, 2007
Macel
marked it as to-read
Aug 23, 2007
Kate
marked it as lost-interest-didn-t-finish
Aug 14, 2009
Erin
marked it as to-read
Jan 13, 2016
Sandra
marked it as to-read
