About this title: Dimple, a 17-year-old girl living in New Jersey feels torn between the world occupied by her traditional, Indian-born parents and that of the America she calls home. Dimple is appalled when her parents set her up with a "suitable" Indian boy named Karsh, a boy whom she immediately rejects as too soft-spoken. Then, when Dimple sees Karsh in another ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Very good read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Good read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Acceptable. Clean pages; peeling to spine; Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Very good read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Push
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780439510110ISBN:0439510112
Description: Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 500 p. Intended for a juvenile audience. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I liked this book, although I wasn't so excited about the whole "my cousin is a lesbian" sub-plot. Plus I had sort of an identity crisis with the whole Gwynn character thing. Aparently white girls who appreciate non-caucasian culture are brazen culture-thiefs with no scruples and bad morals? Except I am a white girl? By the way, I want to officially lodge my complaint with the term "white girl". Going beyond the fact that I am as white in color as the average "black person" is black (I'm half Italian), I don't appreciate being stuck with all kinds of characteristics that may have had some grain of truth in 1863, or 1912, or 1965. I am NOT frigid or heartless and I DO have a culture and it involves equal parts cornbread and pasta. Capisce? Nor do I go around like the front end of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" and backhandedly complement my own skinny white ass (it is not skinny) via insulting the ass endowments of others. So anyway, returning to the book, I felt like the author sympathized with but secretly disliked the caucasian gal-pal. And truly, there were things to dislike about her. But it's hard for a reader to spent half a book disliking a character and then have a magical reunion (brought about by the good-hearted Indian girl) in which she (the gal-pal) gets pawned off on a secondary character in a homage to political correctness. (How cute! A caucasian and a south asian going out! Isn't that precious? World peace and love, ya'll!) This is one of those books you sort of dislike to like and like to dislike. The writing is so luminous and juicy that it's a treat to read, but some of the actual plot elements (see above) sort of put me off."
"Dimple Lala is turning 17 years old, at the beginning of the summer before her senior year in high school, just 4 months before the birthday of her best friend Gwyn. Everything points to this summer being outstanding and it is; just not exactly like Dimple thinks it will be.
Hidier provides a masterful portral of the cultural and personal identity confusion of a young Indian-American, sharply contrasted with that of her grandfather in India, her parents who had an arranged marriage, her best friend who is blond and blue-eyed, and the other friends, cousins, and family who make up her worlds. I found myself crying as Dimple's father recalls a small special ritual the two of them used to have, causing me to remember how special I felt when my father and I went fishing alone. I could practically smell the foods on the table, lovingly prepared by Dimple's mother when her female cousin comes to visit, even though her cousin had been at NYU for a year and they on lived a train ride away. And my heart started to crack a bit more when Dimple found herself caught between being "not American enough" and "not Indian enough".
This books needs to be read by many and one I can highly recommend. There are a number of essential issues addressed in this book that all adolescents can relate to. Interestingly, David Levithin was her editor for this wonderful piece of work."
"I quit reading this book because I was looking for a good cultural read, but the girl was a bit preoccupied with sex. I flipped further into the book to see if she abandoned her best friend who was a bad influence and obsessed with boys, but found they were still pursuing the same course. It wasn't the cultural read I was seeking.
Instead I'm now reading "Does My Head Look Big In This?" Which is about a Australian Muslim girl who has decided to wear the hijab (head covering) full-time. I'm enjoying this cultural read much more."
"So this book was completely engrossing . . . once I got past the first 100 pages. I understand the need to establish the utter confusion of the protagonist before further unraveling her world, but I maintain this book needed to get going a good fifty pages sooner. Also, get this woman an editor who is not so shy with the red pen! Charming style, but after a bit it's hard to take the multi-paragraph digressions into hyper-specific, twee description of absolutely everything.
On a lighter note, new favorite word: bitcheswallah. Also: yaar.
I'd recommend Born Confused as long as you don't mind skimming over paragraphs at a time to get back to the (excellent) plot."
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