![]() ![]() Gwyn has a rotten home life and spends a lot of time with Dimple's family, admiring the clothes, food, and above all, the loving parents. ![]() Her best friend is a Caucasian American named Gwyn, who lives nearby. Her parents are well-educated Indian immigrants who adore her and hover over her anxiously. The narrator is named Dimple Lala and she lives in New Jersey. ![]() 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. In a way, it is a reflection of the Indian culture in general, filled with colors and food and aromas and action. Clearly Hidier loves words and knows how to use them lavishly. It has a lot of pages for a YA novel and each page is filled with words, smallish print. 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. ![]()
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