Throughout the book, Gogol finds himself with a couple of relationships with American Women. The first women that he dated was Ruth and the second person he dated was Maxine Ratliff. Throughout the book, Gogol’s relationships doesn’t go as planned. Although he wasn’t into the…
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Author
Jhumpa Lahiri
Country
India, United States
Original language
English
Genre
Fiction
Publication date
September 2003
Major Characters
Gogol, Ashoke, Ashima, Sonia, Maxine
Setting
Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1968
Plot
The novel follows the story of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, first-generation immigrants from the East Indian state of West Bengal to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol and Sonia.