The Namesake: A Novel

by Jhumpa Lahiri | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0395927218 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingNancyNovawing of Lansdale, Pennsylvania USA on 1/6/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by wingNancyNovawing from Lansdale, Pennsylvania USA on Tuesday, January 6, 2009
TLC Book Club 2/09. The story of a newly married couple, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, who emigrate to the United States from India. Not long after they arrive, their first child, a son, is born and there is an immediate clash of cultures. In the Bengali tradition, the ritual of naming a baby can take up to forty-one days after birth. But in America, bureaucracy demands that the baby not be released from hospital without a name on his birth certificate. Luckily, Indian tradition allows for a pet or nickname to be chosen and, oddly, the parents choose the name Gogol after the Russian writer, Nikolai Gogol. The result of a name that connects Lahiri's Gogol to neither his American birth nor his Indian heritage is the beginning of a search for personal identity.

Journal Entry 2 by wingNancyNovawing at Charlotte, North Carolina USA on Monday, March 16, 2009

Released 15 yrs ago (3/16/2009 UTC) at Charlotte, North Carolina USA

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Mailing to my sister, Jenn

Journal Entry 3 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Monday, April 6, 2009
Will read later

CAUGHT IN CHARLOTTE NC USA

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