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2) The namesake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
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Language
English
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Description
In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life's journey, realizes that she s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone. We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth, and a major literary event. In "The Boundary," one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker's...
7) The lowland
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
8) The namesake
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The grown son of Indian immigrants is torn between finding his own cultural identity amongst his New York friends and respecting his parents' traditional ways.
