Born confused by tanuja desai hidier5/8/2023 ![]() Her parents are traditional, and they want her to marry an Indian boy. She loves photography and one day hopes to make money from it. Dimple feels lonely and confused she doesn’t know where she fits in. To make matters worse, her best friend, Gwen, has new friends now, and she’s not around as much as she used to be. Now, obsessed about her weight, she thinks that if she were thinner, she wouldn’t have lost her boyfriend. ![]() She split up with her long-term boyfriend a year ago, and she’s still not over it. The protagonist, Dimple Lala, a sixteen-year-old Indian-American, is about to turn seventeen. ![]() ![]() Hidier is an award-winning author and songwriter, and her short stories feature in popular anthologies. The first book in the Born Confused duology, it received an honorary nomination for the 2003 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Children and Young Adults. Published in 2002, it tells the story of a young girl who resists her family’s traditions and must decide who she wants to be. Tanuja Desai Hidier’s debut novel, Born Confused, is the first South Asian American young adult contemporary novel. ![]()
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