"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,...

Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.

This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920's on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Photos.

Four extra-terrestrials suddenly materialize in the college town of Rutherford, Ohio. Disguised as humans, they name themselves the Solomons. On the surface, this family functions as normal as possible, but underneath they are out of sync with every person on the planet. Their mission from The Big Giant Head is to study this confusing planet and its confounding inhabitants while trying to gain acceptance on Earth. The complete, uncut original broadcast...

"Para Mariama, después de un largo viaje en automóvil, tren, barco y avión desde África, todo es nuevo. Va a descubrir un mundo donde las calles, la escuela y la comida son diferentes, pero ¿y las personas? Una bella historia sobre la identidad, el proceso de integración y la solidaridad. ¿Preparados para conocer a Mariama y jugar con ella?"-- "Everything's new for Mariama after a long journey by car, train, boat, and plane from Africa. She's...

Jhumpa Lahiri took the literary world by storm when her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. The collection was followed by her best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Namesake - a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama. Presenting these works together here, this edition displays Lahiri's enormous talent as a storyteller.

Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry.

Comedy about four aliens from another planet who pose as humans to study the locals but don't understand the culture at all.