The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri • 2003
Devastation Rating
family loss literary fiction grief
Our Take
Gogol Ganguli carries a name he resents from a country he can't fully claim. Lahiri writes immigrant grief with surgical patience — the slow erosion of the parents' world, the son's embarrassment at what they carried across oceans. The moment you understand why the name matters, it's already too late.
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