Ashoke reflects on how lucky this boy is-the baby receives the present of a book from a Bengali friend-and how different his life will be from Ashoke’s own. Soon their son is born, in the foreign environment of the American hospital. She feels lonely and homesick in America, clinging to letters from her family and devising makeshift Indian recipes with the ingredients she can scrounge together. For Ashima, however, the journey abroad has proven difficult. He was discovered by the rescue party because of the blowing pages of the book he had been reading when the train derailed-a copy of The Collected Stories of Nikolai Gogol. Ashoke has been set on traveling abroad ever since a terrible train accident a few years previous, which he barely survived. The young couple met through an arranged marriage in Calcutta, India, where Ashima had lived her whole life before leaving to accompany Ashoke as he studies engineering at M.I.T.
When we first meet Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli they are living in a small apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about to welcome their first child into the world. The Namesake is the story of two generations of the Gangulis, a family of Indian immigrants to the United States.
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