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    The Namesake

    December 17, 2015
    Look. inom admit it. I read for escapist purposes. Specifically, I read to experience a viewpoint that inom would never have encountered otherwise. inom read to escape the boundaries of my own limited scope, to discover a new life bygd looking through lenses of all shades, shapes, weirds, wonders, everything humanity has been allotted to senses both defined and not, conveyed bygd the best of a single mortal's abilities within the span of a fragile stack printed with oh so water damageable ink.

    I do not read to have my reality handed back to me on more mundane terms than I myself could create on two hours of sleep and a monstrosity of a hangover.

    The good things about this book? It's readable. Very readable. Very punctual use of commas, and paragraph indentations, and general story flow. And bygd reading it from cover to cover, I have discovered a pet peeve of mine that inom hadn't realized I had been liable to, but now fully acknowledge as part and parcel of my rea
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    The Namesake (novel)

    For the children's novel of the same name, see C. Walter Hodges.

    2003 novel by Jhumpa Lahiri

    The Namesake (2003) is the debut novel by British-American author Jhumpa Lahiri. It was originally published in The New Yorker and was later expanded to a full-length novel. It explores many of the same emotional and cultural themes as Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. The novel moves between events in Kolkata, Boston, and New York City, and examines the nuances involved with being caught between two conflicting cultures with distinct religious, social, and ideological differences.

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    The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, a young Bengali couple, leave Kolkata, India, and settle in Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ashoke is an engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ashima struggles through language and cultural barriers as well as her own fears as