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Summary: Must Pick This Book Up
Review: Tanuja Desai Hidier uses her many skills to whip up this indian treat. The characters are so dimensional and interesting. Teh story will not let you down. Its one of teh best pieces of literature I have ever read. This book is a total page turner, you won't let this book down. This book is about finding your identity and yourself during teh hard parst of her life.
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Summary: *CoNfUsEd* One (me)
Review: I liked this story because I can totally relate. My father is Desi and my Mother use to be an Isreali Jew (now she is Muslim, All Praises due to ALLAH). It's an awesome book that slightly gets confusing at times. However, the story and the conflicts make up for it.
One of the most things I love about the book is when the main character explains her confusion in the thought that- "Somehow I'm not Desi enough to the desi's and not American as the American's" (she used Indian not desi but you get what I mean?)
I am thrilled someone wrote about this subject and hope more do so.~Muslima
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Summary: One of the best books ever!
Review: When I first bought Born Confused, I thought it was going to be another book I'd never give up on reading, but would end up dissapointing me. Well, I was wrong. Dimple Lala is such a good main character too. I really liked Born Confused, It is about an indian girl (Dimple Lala) who has a best friend who seems perfect (Gwynn). However things for the two friends go downhill when Dimple's parents introduce Karsh, the suitable unsuitable boy. It's a very good book and I recommend that you read it, even if it is 400 something pages, it has to be the best book I've ever read! :)
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Summary: Confused, but even more so now
Review: Yet confused in a good way. The book happens to be funny, interesting, deep and VERY confusing-in-a-good-wayish. A lot happens, poor Dimple Lala is a teen who adores photography, feels she has no culture, and is smitten with the worng kind of guy at the start of the book. At the end we find her more mature, evolved, intelligent and overall happy, and she's snagged a guy almost any girl would be jealous about. A lot happens in one summer, and I especially love the bustling New York city life as a backdrop. Indeed, a very reccomended book.
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Summary: interesting, true to life
Review: Dimple Lala (love the name!) just turned 17 in a night of drinking with a fake ID (courtesy of her best friend, the blonde cool Gwyn) with Gwyn and their dates, Dylan and Julian -- bad boys extraordinaire. Showing up at home hungover, her alarmed Old World parents set up a meeting with 'a suitable boy', the son of her mother's best friend from medical school whom they just happened to run into after decades. (Dimple accurately names the "the Marriage Mafia mob". The truest line is "Hello? Could they let me grow up first?") Karsh and his mom -- whom even Dimple proclaims as very cool -- arrive for tea at her parents house. Dimple dislikes him on sight and tells Gwyn all about it later. About this time, her cousin Kavita, a med student at NYU, invites her to a South Asian bhangra party. She takes Gwyn with her, and discovers the ultracool DJ is Karsh! And now Gwyn likes him. There is way more to this story as the summer progresses. Dimple starts to see the Indian scene as cool -- something she never did before -- with the aid of Karsh, Kavita, and Zara (whom she meets at the party.) She is uncomfortable as Gwyn starts to get into the Indian scene as well. She also discovers more about her parenst than she ever did before, becasue she is finally forcing herself to look at others in a new light due to all the new people she meets. Her feelings towards Karsh and Gwyn change for both good and bad, and things start coming to a head. This is more realistic in its portrayal of ordinary teens of all races. There are broken homes, underage drinking, identity crises, and jealousy. No one is completely innocent or guilty --- just like in real life.
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Summary: Wonderful for Teen Indians
Review: I read this book in a matter of days and it was amazing. I have to say it was totally cool to read about a teenager (an INDIAN teenager for that) going through the same things i am going through. The writing is stellar and i would recommend this book to all indian girls living in america. The book rocks!
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Summary: An Excellent Book by a Very Talented Author
Review: Reading this novel made me very proud to be a Brunonian :) Although the target audience was perhaps a bit younger than I am, I found the novel thoroughly engaging and the style sophisticated enough for any reader. Once I started, I didn't want to set it down... Reading this book made me remember why I don't buy novels at university! Tanuja does an excellent job of portraying the inner conflict that is part of growing up. She presents the difficulties that can come with being the child of immigrants, but at the same time, writes a book that anyone who was once a teenager can relate to. Looking forward to another book!
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Starting from the first line, most can realate or understand Dimple Lala. That in itself is a great acomplishment for teen books, as the main portion have giggly girls and jocks. Dimple makes you as the reader feel involved in her life, and she uses the best metaphors I have ever seen. The only con: Sometimes Dimple goes on only a little bit too long, when you are eagerly awaiting the next part in the plot. Overall, a thoughtful, undertanding book about being caught in the middle of culture and emotions.
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Summary: A really good read
Review: "Born confused" is an excellent novel which captures the trials and tribulations of a second generation Indian girl growing up in America. Written in a very descriptive prose, the novel describes the throes of adolescence within the repressive window of culture, religion, custom which Dimple Lala wants to get away from. The novel expresses very eloquently all the characteristics and mannersims of the parents from an Indian teenager's perspective but later on she discovers how forward they are in their thinking. The fascination for the Indian girl with Gywn is well captured as well as the confession at the end to show all are just human. This is a book for every American born second generation teenager.
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Summary: Any Ethnicity Will Do
Review: You do not have to be Indian to understand Dimple Lala. Dimple is an everygirl/women. She belongs to a another ethnicity but who doesn't now-a-days.
Different foods, different thoughts on dating and an overall feeling of others being superior is quite the trauma of Dimple. Being just seventeen at the begining of the summer dimple deals in a way that I myself (a photographer do) I try to stand behind the camera so no one has to see me. Dimple (and I) are passive in telling the truth to friends and choose to put their happiness in front of (ours?)
Ms. Lala faces the struggle of any female in America. She struggles with her looks, men, friendship, and family. You see, I told she was an everywomen.
Buy the book, read it, re-read it and then loan it to a friend with explicit insturction to return in by a certain date. You don't want to lose this book.
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