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Title: A Great Interpretation of Immigrants and Family
Review: With Lahiri's almost overuse of adjectives, desriptions and, "and then he did this..." prose I originally thought, "I could have written this myself." Kind of a Seinfeld, "A Book About Nothing," but Lahiri just makes her writing look easy. It is crafted. With each page I felt like I had stepped inside of the lives of the Gugulis, a family who comes to America from India for a better life. It tells the all-too-well known tale of a father's deep love for his son, but what is new here is Lahiri then coming around full sweep as to how we adult children love our parents, first trying to shrug them off like an old coat, and then, typically when it's too late, wishing we could only know them better. "The Namesake" also comes around in full circle of youth who want to shed their heritage, only to crave it immensely later in life. Lahiri also makes the reader quite hungry in her descriptions of tandorri chicken, dahl and the like.
