In this episode, Clare speaks with Kirsty Murphy about the text pairing of Jhumpa Lahiri's 2003 novel 'The Namesake' and Magda Szubanski's 2015 award-winning memoir 'Reckoning'. The conversation begins first with a deep dive into the three (or four) namesakes in Lahiri's novel: Ashima, Ashoke, Gogol (and Moushumi), and then compares to the three characters who experience a reckoning in Szubanksi's memoir: Margaret, Peter and Magda. An insightful overview into the importance of characterisation in both texts, and how we can broaden a character study into a thematic analysis, this is a must-listen for any student or teacher studying this text pairing. 

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