The Namesake: A Novel Cover:Paperback she escaped north to freedom

she escaped north to freedom

Told in the voice of Korphe’s children

Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin

Inspired by the way educators talk about emotions and build emotional literacy with young children

But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss

The Namesake: A Novel Cover:Paperback she escaped north to freedomNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from a writer of uncommon elegance and poise. (The New York Times) 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,