![]() ![]() His father had said, “How long do I have to remember it?”…”Try to remember it always,” he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. Gogol recalls a particularly moving memory of his father from a family trip they made a long time ago. Shocked and overcome with grief, he intensely regrets not having appreciated his father more. Then, Gogol’s father dies a sudden death. In his confusion, he foolishly cuts himself off from his family and culture to lead an All-American life. ![]() In Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, Gogol Ganguli is a conflicted young man, torn between the values of his Indian parents and his own desires to be American. ![]()
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