I recently read this for my book club and I absolutely LOVED this book! It started out a little on the slow side, and I thought it was going to be a tough slog...but then it kind of snuck up on me and I couldn't put it down! The characters are very interesting and I came to really care about what happened to them. A really great read!

From the back cover:

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 marriage, 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 the 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.

Being shipped of to fellow Book Crosser Hellie in Merry Old England! :)

Thanks - arrived today - REALLY looking forward to reading this one. More soon....

It was chomping at the bit to get out and meet its fellow books here when the postman knocked on the door!