Join us for Eola Road Branch's Breakfast B ook Club. We read a variety of fiction titles\, mainly historical fiction\ , and meet once a month for a lively discussion. Stop by the 2nd floor ref erence desk to pick up a copy. No registration required.
\nBook desc ription:
\nIn The Namesake\, Lahiri enriches the themes that made he r collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience\, the c lash of cultures\, the conflicts of assimilation\, and\, most poignantly\, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail &mdash\; the fleeting moment\, the turn of p hrase &mdash\; that opens whole worlds of emotion.
\nThe Namesake ta kes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arrang ed wedding\, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge\, Mass achusetts. An engineer by training\, Ashoke adapts far less warily than hi s wife\, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When th eir son is born\, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of brin ging old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian p arents in memory of a catastrophe years before\, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd\, antic name .
\nLahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the fi rst-generation path\, strewn with conflicting loyalties\, comic detours\, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight\, she reveals not onl y the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents\, but also the means by which we slowly\, sometimes painfully\, c ome to define ourselves (from Goodeads.com).
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