Tag: The Namesake

• Connections

  I often write about the exhilaration I feel when one good book leads to another and another. After reading and enjoying Ticket to Minto, I interviewed the author, Sohrab Homi Fracis. He mentioned that he was pitching his novel-in-progress as “Jack Kerouac’s On the Road meets Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.”  This piqued my interest in The Namesake. I picked it…

  Bill Ectric

  September 28, 2011

  ghost story, Gogol, Jhumpa Lahiri, Nikolai Gogal, satire, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Namesake, The Overcoat, Ticket To Minto, Vladimir Nabokov, writers