The Namesake - Review

Veena was much faster than me in reading this book. She thought the style and pace of the book would not interest me. Since she knows my taste better (than me), I never went past page 15.

This is Veena's review:

Name sake is a story of an Indian family coming to
America and trying to mingle into the new culture
while still holding onto our traditions and values. It
is an every Indian's story who try to settle in USA -
buying house, hosting big parties for other fellow
Indians, bringing up children with all the hope of
raising them with Indian values only to later on
comply with their American way of settling themselves.
It is more like the ABCD movie story, differences are
the experience of the Father (why he left India, how
he got married, how his life ends) and experience of
the Mother getting married to the guy from USA,
realization of known people back home are no longer
living, trying to name the baby, relationship with the
children etc. It was an OK reading, I skipped some of
the pages where it went into detail of their son's
relationships. I told Shan that he most probably won't
be interested in the book.