Greg Sarris, Grand Avenue.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake.
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| "My name is Jasmine, but I'm no sweet-smelling flower. Names are just parent's dreams, after all." Greg Sarris, Grand Avenue. |
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| "After the valleys were settled the names of places refer more to things which happened there, and these to me are the most fascinating of all names because each name suggests a story that has been forgotten." John Steinbeck, East of Eden. |
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| ". . . something occurs to him. This writer he is named after--Gogol isn't his first name. His first name in Nikolai. Not only does Gogol Ganguli have a pet name turned good name, but a last name turned first name. And so it occurs to him that no one he knows in the world, in Russia or India or America or anywhere, shares his name. Not even the source of his namesake" (78). Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake. |
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