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Kenia Rangel
December 16, 2016
Period 4
Chapters 9-10 Abstracts
Chapter 9
 Gogol and Moushimi end up getting married in and indian culture but in
New York.
 Sonia gives Gogol a belated birthday present.
 Gogol and Moushumi keep the wedding traditional, they both wear
their traditional attire and the wedding goes smoothly.
 They then change into a more Americanized version for their 2 nd half of
the wedding.
 Gogol and Moushumi head off to the honeymoon suite, where Gogol
remembers how he asked her to marry him in the spring, on her
birthday. He had given her a gift of the hat he bought months before,
and included in the box a smaller box with an engagement ring.
 In March, Gogol accompanies Moushumi to a conference in Paris. While
Moushumi prepares a paper for her conference, Gogol goes
sightseeing.
 Gogol wants to take Moushumi's picture, but she refuses; she doesn't
want to look like a tourist.
 Fast forward to a Saturday evening in May. They are at a party thrown
by Moushumi's friends, Astrid and Donald. Gogol isn't having fun.
 Astrid is pregnant, and the guests discuss baby names. But Gogol has
issues with the whole name thing, so he wanders around their place
instead of chiming in the conversation.
 Gogol is ticked off that she shared his secret, when Moushumi tells her
friends that Gogol changed his name.
Chapter 10
 Gogol and Moushumi are all set to celebrate their first anniversary

 Moushumi has just passed her oral exams for graduate school.
 Moushumi also finds out that she received a research grant to work on
her dissertation in France, but she rejects it and throws it away since it
would mean living away from Gogol for a year.
 Moushumi begins teaching the fall semester at NYU, and on her first
day of class, she arrives at work to discover that the departmental
assistant, Alice, died suddenly of an aneurysm that morning.
 Moushumi remembers her high school days, when she and her friends
had visited Princeton, pretending to be college students.
 Dimitri and Moushumi went out on a date, but Moushumi made the
mistake of asking him to her prom.
 He sent her postcards at Brown, where she was in school.
 Moushumi writes Dimitri's phone number down.
 Moushumi ends up calling Dimitri. They start having an affair, meeting
at his place on Mondays and Wednesdays after she teaches class at
NYU.