Aspects of YA lit such as recording day-to-day teenage struggles and the inevitable coming-of-age climax are well-suited to breaking down the constant, painful contradictions that immigrant children struggle with in their attempts at assimilation. Though many people I know are skeptical about the merits of analyzing young adult literature (or any “genre” like sci-fi or fantasy), I believe that this novel, because of its YA lit characteristics, captures the experiences of second-generation children particularly well. Dimple is an ABCD-an American Born Confused Desi. Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier is a young adult novel about Dimple Lala, the New Jersey-born daughter of two Indian immigrants.
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