The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Asian American
- South Asian
Year Published 2003
Word Count 103,070
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1140L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 77440, 18 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Young men--Fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction
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- Children of immigrants
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- East Indian Americans--Fiction
- Massachusetts--Fiction
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- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich
- Assimilation (Sociology)--Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Young men
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Appreciation
- Children of immigrants--Fiction
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