If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to leave a rich culture as a last resort for a safer life and found that the move made it difficult to pass that culture onto your children, this book is a vibrant, fictional account of that experience.

This is a story that spans two generations of a Bengali family who moved from Calcutta, India to Massachusetts.

I just wish I could have told them about Massachusetts before they bought plane tickets.

Today's book is The Namesake by Jompa Lahiri.

And this is The Bookpile.

I'm Kellanerskin.

I'm a comic, a father, and this book put into perspective how moving my family for a better life was less

difficult than most people in the world have it, since our biggest problem was living in a new

place where you had to remember to move your car every Wednesday because of street sweeping.

And I'm David Vance.

My girlfriend is Indian American, so I probably should have chosen this book.

And if Kellan pretends I did, it would really score me a lot of points.

All right, real quick, don't forget to give us a rating and a review.

If you love the podcast, even if you don't, we would appreciate your meager five stars.

Dizzy Ross says, my roommate and I love this podcast. The hosts are both smart and hilarious,

which we can relate to. Random fact, I've been listening for weeks and just realized I took French in high school with Dave's younger brother.

Two exclamations. Now, Dave, you have about 23 younger brothers. So we're pretty sure that's my brother James.

Because he both took French and is out of high school. The other one's still in high school. So if they're talking about him, they phrased it very

weirdly. They also add, we have been working hard to perfect our Callan and Dave impressions.

Now, Dave, I know from personal experience that having someone do an impression of you is just

like having a caricature drawn of yourself, but with your

voice. Yeah, it's never nice. No, like, basically the person will just take the thing you hate most

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