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1) The namesake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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1140L
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English
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"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. 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 path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake,...
2) Jasmine
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English
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The renowned novel of a young Indian woman's coming of age as her life takes her across Indian and the United States—with a new introduction by Mira Jacob.
A New York Times Notable Book
Following one woman through her numerous identities—from Jyoti in a small village in Punjab, to Jasmine in Jalandhar, to Jase in Manhattan, to Jane in Iowa—Bharati Mukherjee gives us an iconic character whose journey through shifting...
A New York Times Notable Book
Following one woman through her numerous identities—from Jyoti in a small village in Punjab, to Jasmine in Jalandhar, to Jase in Manhattan, to Jane in Iowa—Bharati Mukherjee gives us an iconic character whose journey through shifting...
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"Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti's debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent on the lives of three generations. The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa navigates the changing...
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"From the author of the highly acclaimed and prize-winning collection, QUARANTINE, an insightful, compelling debut novel about an Indian American boy's struggle to fit into a society where his race and sexuality are outside the norm and to find a sense of belonging, identity, and hope"--
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English
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"In eleven ... stories, [the author] gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by"--Amazon.com.
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