The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri"Dazzling An intimate, closely observed family portrait." The New York Times "Hugely appealing." People Magazine "An exquisitely detailed family saga." Entertainment Weekly Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new worldconflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding

thirst and starvation

partly for her FBI art crimes work

history and memory

Her new roommate has other ideas

and self-tests

To answer these questions

you go from 0 to 1

'Inspiring and practical' Marshall Goldsmith

Now she'll pay him back by finding the real killer

Here they are in marriage

offering hope for healing and thriving after psychopathic abuse

and dryly funny