The Namesake // Jhumpa Lahiri. &quot;Lahiri&#x27;s quietly dazzling novel is that rare thing: an intimate, closely observed family portrait that effortlessly and discreetly unfolds to disclose a capacious social vision. [A]bout two generations of the Ganguli family and [also] about exile and its discontents, as affecting in its Chekhovian exploration of parents and children as it is resonant in its exploration of what is acquired and lost by immigrants and their children in pursuit of the American…