List of the Week: Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake"

"Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do." –Jhumpa Lahiri, "My Life's Sentences"

Here, learn some of the words Jhumpa Lahiri has arranged so magically in her novel The Namesake with four new Vocabulary Lists from the book: Chapters 1-3, Chapters 4-6, Chapters 7-9, Chapters 10-12.