The Namesake: A Novel

The Namesake: A NovelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from a writer of uncommon elegance and poise. (The New York Times) Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn,

is suddenly strong and mean

still pretty

petition their government

When a boy finds a canteen

Labor -- and Librarians

fend off thieves who covet the pearl for themselves and will go to any lengths to get it

The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery

and even family photos

she writes about the surprising health costs of caste

to the fearsome King Shaka of the Zulus

and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change toward a freer

He also read voraciously—he would check out books from the library and carry them home