El Buen Nombre (Lingua Franca)

By Jhumpa Lahiri

Subjects: Alienation (social psychology)--fiction, Appreciation, Sociology, Jóvenes (Varones), Young men--fiction, Children of immigrants, Asimilación cultural, Fiction, coming of age, Assimilation (sociology)--fiction, Estadounidenses de india oriental, Indian Americans, Novela, Domestic fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Alienation, Assimilation (Sociology), Ps3562.a316 n36 2019, Assimilation, Reading Level-Grade 12, Alienation (social psychology), Alienación (psicología social), Large type books, Assimilation (sociology), Estadounidenses de India Oriental, 813/.54, Massachusetts, fiction, Art appreciation, Social psychology, Jóvenes (Hombres), Fiction, family life, Hijos de inmigrantes, Novela hogareña, Alienation (Social psychology), Children of immigrants--fiction, East Indian Americans, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Reading Level-Grade 11, Fic019000, Appreciationgogolʹ, nikolaĭ vasilʹevich , 1809-1852, East indian americans--fiction, Fiction / literary, Jóvenes (hombres), Alienación (Psicología social), Gogolʹ, nikolaĭ vasilʹevich , 1809-1852, Jóvenes (varones), East indian americans, Ficción, Young men, Asian americans, fiction

Description: Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy starts to hate the awkward name and itches to cast it off, along with the inherited values it represents. Determined to live a life far removed from that of his parents, Gogol sets off on his own path only to discover that the search for identity depends on much more than a name.