Title: The Namesake Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Paperback: 291 pages ISBN: 9780618485222 For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy - a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has [...]
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