Namesake

Now,this was the book that was bribed into our library: bribed for the sake of Lila and till now,the owner of this book hasnt come and claimed it back. Felt like reading it next and i finished it off real fast, thanks to less work. Mon - Fri, 5 nights is what it took me to complete this novel.

Also, this time, I read about the author a little more apart from whats there on the book.She looks cute and beautiful in few snaps. Check it out :) Somehow i felt the name Jhumpa funny: Rhymes with Champa, Tampa, Lumpa, ok ok m stopping here. Looking at her biography, feel she has transformed her life experiences into a novel and told it through Gogol n others.

As I was reading it, felt like I am doing it just for the title,reading it Namesake !, but yeah,wait till the last chapter of the novel, the final 20 pages and she turns it all around. I liked those pages. Nothing too great happens in the final pages though, but they are real touchy. Overall, its an OK read. Not too good, not bad either.

Good things about the novel: The central theme itself. Wow, a person has spun a yarn around name of a person. Sounds different, but Mission Accomplished. And then, the way she describes life of NRI's and all those ABCD's there, gives a totally different picture of America than what many of us think. USA is no good heaven!

Now, do I read Interprester of Maladies? Dont know, that was the one that gave her Pulitzer, so it should be better than this. But No, i wont, if shes gonna talk about the same subject there also. You tell me...