Rather than use quotation marks, Hidier shows dialogues with dashes. It may have been my advanced reader copy, but it was very distracting and often made it difficult to tell who was speaking. It made the characters seem stilted and kept the writing from flowing. Overall, I would love this plot idea done in an entirely different way. View all 3 comments.
This is a knock-out coming of age YA novel about identity, belonging, friendship, and romance. It's the story of Dimple finding out who she is as a person, discovering what her passions are, re connecting with her culture and family, reimagining an old friendship, and falling in love for the first time. There's a lot in here about feeling stuck between cultures: too Indian to really be American, and too American to really be Indian.
I loved the characterization and I loved the writing. I though This is a knock-out coming of age YA novel about identity, belonging, friendship, and romance. I thought Hidier did a great job at having the voice feel very teenagery but also write beautiful descriptions.
Her writing is both profound and very funny as she details Dimple's journey. I especially loved the mom's dialogue so funny and how photography and music were described. The scene where Dimple smokes pot for the first time and the narrative is following the funny directions her mind was going was also spot-on and hilarious.
That scene, and actually most of the hangout scenes with the teenagers, really put me back in the mindset of being a teenager, which has honestly only happened to me a very few times reading YA. Dimple's cousin Kavita, who is a secondary but important character is one of the first first? South Asian queer characters in YA. She was one of a few family members, including both Dimple's parents, that Dimples gets to know all over again as individuals separate from her preconceptions.
Dimple slowly starts to see her parents as real people, and not just her parents, learning about their lives in India before they moved to the US. Kavita becomes more than Dimple's annoying Indian cousin who called her "cowgirl" because she lived in the States and becomes a good friend who knows what it's like to be in between I wasn't sure about Dimple's BFF Gwyn who annoyed the crap out of me for most of the novel, meaning that her redemption at the end fell a little flat or more like, I wasn't really invested in Dimple repairing her relationship with her and so when it happened, I was like, meh.
I felt like I was supposed to feel sympathetic to her--especially after her WASPy parents-ignore-her home life was really explained. But I dunno, maybe I've just seen the rich white girl whose parents are divorced and don't care about her and who is amazingly beautiful and charismatic but is actually lonely story too many times by now. But she was awful for so much of the book! What kind of BFF is she! Okay, all this to say I loved this book!! It's a prime example of the genre and something for YA writers to aspire to.
Which is especially a big deal considering this is a debut novel. After finishing this audiobook which was 14 hours long , I realized that I'll miss the characters in this book.
This book was certainly wasn't perfect but wow, Born Confused is undeniably special. Positive: everything was thoroughly developed and made the narrative multifaceted and complex. Negative: it does feel like it drags a little bit. I'm torn as to how I feel about this book. First off, please read Briynne's reviews of this book on here. She does a great job of expressing some of my thoughts about the book.
I can understand Dimple's identity crisis and teenage angst regarding, well, being a teenager and also being an Asian American teenager, but most of the time I wanted to shake D I'm torn as to how I feel about this book. I can understand Dimple's identity crisis and teenage angst regarding, well, being a teenager and also being an Asian American teenager, but most of the time I wanted to shake Dimple by the shoulders and tell her to wake up, get a backbone, and get rid of Gwyn.
I also just wanted to tell Gwyn to stop acting like an idiot, and, well, I want her out of the story. The "poor little beautiful rich girl whose parents ignore her, is desperate for attention, and is really just a troubled soul underneath all that conniving, manipulating, and snobbery" is pretty overdone in literature. Normally you'd think that if a character gets under your skin so much, the author has done a great job, but in this case, I beg to differ.
I mostly just wanted to roll my eyes and got annoyed at the author for creating Gwyn's character. I agree with other reviewers who say the writing is a tad bit overdone at time and, yes, it feels like a hipster wrote the book.
If I could, I would give the book 2. View 1 comment. It is not just the fact that I identified so closely with this book that made me like it so much. Or maybe it is. Maybe the fact that the book so blithely talked about something that was close to my own reality that made me prize it above others. Or her juxtaposition with the best friend who is in search for a culture and finds one, the very one that Dimple is so determined to It is not just the fact that I identified so closely with this book that made me like it so much.
Or her juxtaposition with the best friend who is in search for a culture and finds one, the very one that Dimple is so determined to throw away. Or perhaps it is just the sheer mastery of her prose, her compelling plot, all of which contain elements that will make you love Born Confused whether or not you identify with the heroine.
I recommend it to anyone who has felt a little lost while trying to hang on to what they have while trying to catch a hold of what they could have before realizing that you have to let something go before you can have something else. Yes, I know, convoluted sentence but you get what I mean. This book was a little bit angsty for me. But that's because, as a POC it's hard to watch the character in the story having a white best friend who most def doesnt understand the position of someone of color, who might feel inadequate in a world made to cater to white people.
In this case Dimple, who is Indian, feels out of place and inferior. Especially to her best friend who is white. But the most irking thing is, somehow Dimple's best friend blames her for everything. Complaining about how she This book was a little bit angsty for me. Complaining about how she feels inadequate or whatever, and it's just like Such BS. I don't feel like Dimple really got to tell off her friend, who clearly was trynna take everything away, whether it was done consciously or not.
I would go into more detail about why this book was angsty, or certain scenes where it was just so hard to read, but it would be too much. I don't wanna go that deep. Hopefully this is a coherent enough review. Though this book had my heart squeezed for a long period of segments, I will be reading the sequel, Bombay Blues.
View all 4 comments. This book is about an teenage girl whose parents immigrated to the U. The girl wants to fit in with her American teenage friends but is constantly reminded of her Indian heritage by the color of her skin and her parents who maintain their Indian customs. While I generally enjoy this genre of novel Indian culture meets America , I found this book very tiresome to read. The dialogue didn't sound natural and for my taste there was way too much descriptive prose and not enough action.
The story line was quite predictable, in my opinion. I found myself longing to get to the end so I could start reading something else hate to put down a book without finishing it. I enjoyed reading aboutall things Indian but was bored with the writing. Not my favorite shall we say. Maybe this is a YA book that you really need to be YA to read.
Only read for a book club. Don't recommend. Shelves: read-as-child , 0wn4g3 , the-honored , top It's only been a few years since I bought this book, and my copy's already been reread about four times. Let me put this in perspective: I rarely reread books. Once every three years is the maximum. But I cannot get enough of this book. The characters are realistic and compelling, with their own loves, histories and compulsions. Love is never simple in books, but Tanuja Desai Hidier reaches into your soul and makes you feel every emotion acutely.
Summer tends to put me in the mood for this book. First of all, it remains as good as when I first picked it up. Now that I'm older, I think I can say that this book informed my high school years as Gary Paulsen's "The Island" informed my elementary school ones.
Dimple's voice is that of someone who feels like an outsider, yet always looks at the world with awe - something I've always aspired to do. The search for identity and belonging, the need to grow, confusion about love and friendship And though I no longer feel lost or confused, this book still reminds me of who I wanted - and still want - to be.
There's something about this book. I first read it in eight grade, and when I did, I didn't like it. I am not entirely sure why. Maybe it was the format or the style. I doubt it had to do with the characters or the plot-line. Either way, I didn't like it. But once I finished it, it stuck with me. Some conversation would remind me of it, or such. It has stuck with me for the past three years. So, since it was so unforgettable, I decided to give it another go. This time I liked it a lot, but it was There's something about this book.
This time I liked it a lot, but it wasn't incredible, or mind blowing, or cathartic. The characters were engaging, certainly, and sympathetic, but not astounding. The plot was kind of average, from the beginning you can guess what is going to happen. The writing was pleasant, but not particularly new or different.
So, I don't really know why I liked it so much, or why it has stuck with me for so long. But it has, so there has to be something more to it than I can figure out. It was very real, definitely. Maybe that's it. All in all, I would recommend it to everyone and anyone.
I felt like I really related to it more from the South Asian American college student perspective I liked the relationship between the narrator and her parents Born Confused is an inspiring novel about a girl trying to find herself. Dimple Lala is stuck between two cultures, Indian and American, and never feels like she is enough of either. Then to complicate things, her parents decide to set up an arranged marriage with a "suitable boy.
The descriptions in this book are nothing short of magnificent, and they drag you Born Confused is an inspiring novel about a girl trying to find herself. The descriptions in this book are nothing short of magnificent, and they drag you in so wholly that you forget that this is just a story. Read this book!
It generalizes indians so much and the main character?? One of those books that I don't quite like entirely, but that is long enough that I felt attached to it by the end.
It's a little flat and angst-driven. I read this in my teens and remember feeling as if I shouldn't be I don't know why but enjoying it a lot. Completely forgot what it was called until now. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.
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