"Is that what you think of when you think of me?" Gogol asks him. "Do I remind you of that night?"
"Not at all," his father says eventually..."You remind me of everything that followed.--The Namesake (after his father explains to him that he was reading Nikolai Gogol before the train accident that almost killed him)
"You can't do that," she'd told him then,..., and when he'd asked her why not she'd simply said, "Because you can't. Because you're Gogol."--The Namesake (after Gogol informs his sister that he is to have his name changed)
Against instinct he tries to imagine life without his father, a world in which his father does not exist.--The Namesake
He envied her the specificity of her task, so unlike the elusive nature of his. He was a mediocre student who had a facility for absorbing details without curiosity.--A Temporary Matter (in the short story anthology, Interpreter of Maladies... this hits close to home, too!)
Jhumpa Lahiri rocks!--Me
"Not at all," his father says eventually..."You remind me of everything that followed.--The Namesake (after his father explains to him that he was reading Nikolai Gogol before the train accident that almost killed him)
"You can't do that," she'd told him then,..., and when he'd asked her why not she'd simply said, "Because you can't. Because you're Gogol."--The Namesake (after Gogol informs his sister that he is to have his name changed)
Against instinct he tries to imagine life without his father, a world in which his father does not exist.--The Namesake
He envied her the specificity of her task, so unlike the elusive nature of his. He was a mediocre student who had a facility for absorbing details without curiosity.--A Temporary Matter (in the short story anthology, Interpreter of Maladies... this hits close to home, too!)
Jhumpa Lahiri rocks!--Me
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