ANOTHER LOOK AT "THE NAMESAKE"

While perusing the latest issue of Bookslut I came across this conversation about a book I read and briefly discussed in an entry here last winter, The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri.  Here four very literate South Asian women discuss the book and their reactions to it.  I didn't have time to do the book justice when I wrote about it in November, so if it's a book you've been thinking about reading you may find this discussion of interest.  As a total gringa my reactions are culturally different of course, and I found reading these women's thoughts to be an extension of the book.  I assure you, however, that you don't need to be from India or Pakistan to feel the universal appeal of family and coming-of-age situations that are the heart of this delightful book.