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Article: Hidier, Tanuja Desai. Born confused.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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- November 1, 2002
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Scholastic 432p. c2002. 0-439-35762-4. $16.95. S*
This is an especially witty, intelligent immigrant experience novel, written by a young woman who grew up in America and probably was ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) herself. It has a lot of pages for a YA novel and each page is filled with words, smallish print. Clearly Hidier loves words and knows how to use them lavishly. In a way, it is a reflection of the Indian culture in general, filled with colors and food and aromas and action. I like the cover art: basically, the eyes and forehead of an Indian woman with a red question mark where the bindi (red dot) goes.
The narrator is named Dimple Lala and ...