The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- South Asian
- Asian / Pacific American
Year Published 2004
Word Count 103,070
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1140L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 77440
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Young men--Fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction
- Fiction | General
- Massachusetts
- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852--Appreciation--Fiction
- Children of immigrants
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- East Indian Americans--Fiction
- Massachusetts--Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- East Indian Americans
- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich
- Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Young men
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Appreciation
- Children of immigrants--Fiction
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- ELA Text Exemplars, 11-12
- HCS High School Book Club
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