Anzia Yezierska's story "Children of Loneliness" is relatively similar to the Namesake when considering that it also deals with topics like alienation from one's family and the struggle to find one's personal identity. Rachel Ravinsky, the central character in the story, feels that it would only be natural for her to abandon principles instilled in her by her parents in order to be able to adopt more 'American' ideas. Both Rachel and Gogol have a tendency to regard ideas expressed by their parents as being limiting and out-dated.

It is probable that Rachel and Gogol feel that it would only be natural for them to blame their parents for their inability to feel 'at home'. They consider that even with the fact that they are both perfectly able to integrate the American society they will...

Such people are probable to end up feeling that they belong to two very different cultures and that they do not actually have a cultural identity to respect at the same time.
Bibliography:

Yezierska, Anzia, "Children of loneliness: stories of immigrant life in America," (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1923)

Dir. Mira Nair, the Namesake. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2007