The Namesake

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Jhumpa Lahiri. The Namesake

THE NAMESAKE. JHUMPA LAHIRI

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For Alberto and Octavio,whom I call by other names

—NIKOLAI GOGOL, “The Overcoat”

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“In a few days you’ll get the hang of it,” he says, hoping to encourage her, unsure of what else to do. He sets the cup beside her on the flaking windowsill. “I think he’s falling asleep again,” he adds, looking at Gogol, whose cheeks are working methodically at his wife’s breast.

“I won’t,” she insists thickly, looking neither at the baby nor at him. She pulls back a bit of the curtain, then lets it fall. “Not here. Not like this.”

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