The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Parts of this I found I loved, and parts I did not. I really loved reading about Boston, and the landmarks- also the theme of displacement. We can all relate to that a little bit, right? I loved reading about his trip to New Hampshire with Maxine, which made me homesick for Sunapee and lake bathing.
We will always feel a generation apart from our parents-even embarrassed of them as we grow up- but this book put it in a perspective that was interesting to read about. It's true it wasn't really a story- more like anecdotes tied together about relationships and mundane things. The end was depressing for me, and anticlimactic. Soooo, I would probably take away even more stars from my rating had it not been set in New England.



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