The Namesake | Setting
Most of The Namesake takes place in parts of New England. As the story opens, Ashoke Ganguli is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ashoke and his wife Ashima live in a collegiate setting. It is 1968, and the couple that lives above them are professionals but follow a stereotypical hippie lifestyle—laid back about parenting and not terribly concerned about keeping a clean house. It is a tumultuous time in the United States. The war in Vietnam is raging. The Chicago Democratic National Convention erupts in...
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