The namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

In the namesake i think Ashima and Gogol are the main characters of the story. while Ashima is tryng to learn how to adapt the american ways of living, Gogol is trying to find his own identity. Gogol struggled with his name throughout the story. Before his father death, he did not really like being around his parents. When he moved to New York, he started dating Maxine and become part of her family. He is more comfortable being around Maxine and her family then his own family. But when his father die, he became more closer to his family but i think he is feeling guilty about how he was not around his family. He married to Moushumi who is a Bengali like him. I think that they got married because they are both Bengali not because they love each other. Their marriage did not work out in the end. At the end of the novel, Ashima sold the family house and went back to India. Gogol pick the book that his father gave him on his graduation and started reading it.