Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake

Well-written and readable (not necessarily the same thing), and thankfully not at all in the picaresque, magic realist, fabulistic vein of much 'Indian literature' - rather, it's notably, and impressively, precise and crisp in its use of language - but lacking anything to particularly pull me in, quickly and painlessly though I got through the book. I'm just not that interested in this kind of story.