Jhumpa_lahiri_The_Namesake: "It is the story of Gogol Ganguli a child of Bengali immigrants to America who hates his first name and doesn’t know what it means. Neither does anyone else. It is later explained that his father named him after a nineteenth century Russian poet. The entire book is based on Gogol’s various failed attempts to change his name.
Like her character Gogol, Jhumpa herself is a child of Indian immigrants to America. She was born to Bengali parents in London from where her parents went to Rhode Island even before she was old enough to sit up.
Her writing career began when she was all of seven. That's the time she started 'co-authoring books' with a classmate during lunch break. Like many others of the Indian diaspora, Lahiri felt she did not belong to America and writing allowed the shy girl child to observe and make sense of things around her without having to participate.
After winning the Pulitzer Prize, Lahiri told Newsweek, ' We were always looking back so I never felt fully at home here. There's nobody in this whole country that we're related to. India was different---our extended family offered real connections. To see my parents as children, as siblings, was rare."
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