A review by casspro
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

3.0

There is a certain poetry with Lahiri's words, but you have to sacrifice dialogue for the descriptions. I didn't find the book to be as list oriented (this happened and then this happened and then this happened again) as other reviewers critiqued. It's another take on the immigrant tale, with a added emphasis on the importance of names. Names define us, both those that we choose and those that are thrust upon us; this is the thread that holds the novel together.