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Book Review of The Namesake

The Namesake
The Namesake
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


Beautifully written, very thoughtful chronicle of the immigrant (and first generation) experience. A novel that I enjoyed reading, although I found that it did drag a little at times and, at the end, various threads hadn't quite been drawn together to make a seamless, satisfying whole.

"In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another."