The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that follows the Ganguli family from their lives in Calcutta through their journey to America. Ashima and Ashoke have a son named Gogol who eventually enters a graduate program in New York to study architecture. Gogol struggles with his identity as he attempts to juggle his heritage with the culture of his new country. After going through a divorce with an Indian woman, he is finally able to find peace with himself.
Jhumpa Lahiri writes fiction about the Indian immigrant experience in America. She surprised the literary world in 2001 when she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her very first full-length effor...
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