The Namesake

by Jhumpa Lahiri | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0618485228 Global Overview for this book
Registered by time-traveler of Peekskill, New York USA on 1/21/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by time-traveler from Peekskill, New York USA on Friday, January 21, 2005
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Purchased for bookcrossing. Trade paperback.

Journal Entry 2 by time-traveler from Peekskill, New York USA on Friday, January 28, 2005
Sent this to LastChanceToSee, winner of my 1st BC Anniversary Wishlist Raffle. Congratulations, LastChanceToSee!

Journal Entry 3 by LastChanceToSee from Wilmington, Delaware USA on Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Thank you so much Time-Traveler. :)

This is my first ever "find" and I'm really looking forward to reading it. Also a very special thanks for the extra little goodies. What a treat. Time-traveler, you rock!

Happy BookCrossing Anniversary!

I'll add to this post, when I read "The Namesake".
}~) LastChanceToSee

2/3/05
So, I wasn't planning on reading/finishing this so fast...but I picked it up and just couldn't put it down. I really enjoyed it! Thank you again time-traveler! Other books that I've enjoyed, in a similar vein, are three books by Esmeralda Santiago: America's Dream and her 2 autobiographical books, When I Was Puerto Rican, and Almost A Woman. I am definitely going to look for Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.

I really liked how the voice of the story kept changing--the transitions were really well done. If there could have been one thing different about this book, I wish she'd gone back to Ashoke's voice to see the world through his eyes in the early 1990's--to see how he had transformed or stayed the same. It was very easy to really care for the characters in this story.

LastChanceToSee

Journal Entry 4 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Friday, March 11, 2005
One of the best books I've picked up recently. I couldn't put it down, but didn't want it to end. I found the story insightful into how immigrants coming to this country in recent years may feel when leaving all that is familiar behind and making a new life for themselves and their children in a new and strange culture. Watching the assimilation was fascinating.

CAUGHT IN WILMINGTON DE USA

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