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The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
★★★★· Published 2003· 304 pages
Gogol Ganguli, saddled with an odd name, caught between his Bengali family and his American life. Quietly gorgeous.
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Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri's story collection about Indian and Indian American lives, longing and distance. Each one is quietly perfect.
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
A boy adrift on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, and a story about story itself. Strange and unforgettable.
★ 5At Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott
An Irish-Catholic family in New York, seen through the kids being shuttled to their grandmother's apartment. McDermott makes the ordinary ache.