The Namesake

An incisive 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, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. Reissue. (A Fox Searchlight film, releasing late Spring 2006, adapted by Sooni Taraporevala, directed by Mira Nair, starring Kal Penn) (General Fiction)