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Summary: 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, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding coming-of-age path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. (from barnesandnoble.com)
Where can I find it?: Upper School library, Walczak building
Tags: Alienation (Social psychology); Art appreciation; Assimilation (Sociology); Bildungsromans; Children of immigrants; Domestic fiction; East Indian Americans; Fiction; Massachusetts; Young men
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