![]() When I saw Tanuja recently in London (yes, at a pub we went to four that night), she mentioned the book will have been out 15 years this fall. Considered to be the first South Asian American YA novel, Born Confused has been and continues to be an important literature of verisimilitude for readers of all backgrounds (in addition to being a touchstone document for Indian Americans of a certain age, who encountered it as teens). ![]() ![]() Tanuja Desai Hidier’s book about a New Jersey teenager named Dimple Lala grappling with her identity is intimate in its telling and yet so universal in its lessons. That feeling of recognition and insider status (at last!) that popped off virtually every page stays with me to this day-and is one I strive for in my own work as an author and journalist. But this was different Born Confused was not a book that spoke to my soul as much as told from my soul. Fifteen years ago, when I was 26 years old, a YA novel helped me see my life anew. ![]()
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