![]() ![]() She cannot find puffed rice, so she tries to recreate the snack using rice krispies cereal instead. ![]() In the first chapter we see Ashima pregnant with her first child, craving a spicy Indian snack sold by street vendors on roadsides in Kolkata. She has an intense yearning for the people and the places she has left behind. Ashok is busy with his work at MIT and Ashima’s heart twinges with pangs of loneliness. The newlyweds had an arranged marriage and now they must navigate life in a new land while still getting to know each other. ![]() Library Journal describes the novel as, “this poignant treatment of the immigrant experience, which is a rich, stimulating fusion of authentic emotion, ironic observation, and revealing details.” Booklist review says, “Lahiri's deeply knowing, avidly descriptive, and luxuriously paced first novel is equally triumphant as Interpreter of Maladies” Pulitzer prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri’s first novel, The Namesake, narrates three decades of the lives of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguly as they leave India and settle down in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1960’s. ![]()
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