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A review by ladybellatrix
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
3.0
2.5*
Dimple Lala is an American born Asian and she has a conflict a lot of second generations grew up with, feeling too Indian to be American and too American to be Indian. Over one summer, Dimple turns 17 and she is introduced to a 'suitable' boy and she finds herself questioning identity, culture and what she really wants.
I wanted to like this book, but it's just too fucking wordy. It's a lot of the metaphors don't make sense and you can have long and rambling descriptions of places and atmospheres that just made this book a lot longer than it needed to be. It felt like a book that needed to be trudged through to try and get to the actual meat of the story and though Dimple was quite well draw, the story is mostly lacking.
I feel like a lot of this books was meet ups that didn't need to happen described in detail they didn't need to be described in. This book could have been condensed and much more enjoyable with good editing.
Dimple Lala is an American born Asian and she has a conflict a lot of second generations grew up with, feeling too Indian to be American and too American to be Indian. Over one summer, Dimple turns 17 and she is introduced to a 'suitable' boy and she finds herself questioning identity, culture and what she really wants.
I wanted to like this book, but it's just too fucking wordy. It's a lot of the metaphors don't make sense and you can have long and rambling descriptions of places and atmospheres that just made this book a lot longer than it needed to be. It felt like a book that needed to be trudged through to try and get to the actual meat of the story and though Dimple was quite well draw, the story is mostly lacking.
I feel like a lot of this books was meet ups that didn't need to happen described in detail they didn't need to be described in. This book could have been condensed and much more enjoyable with good editing.