- East Indian Americans, East Indian American teenagers, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Tanuja Desai Hidier
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 500
- Publisher
- Scholastic, Incorporated, Turtleback Books, Scholastic Inc.
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780545229944
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 3 have read it and 22 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Tell Me Three Things 201689% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
The Henna Wars 202089% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
Instructions for Dancing 202189% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, spare.
Juliet takes a breath 201688% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
This Winter 201587% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.- Both classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
The illustrated mum 199986% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
My Oxford Year 201886% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, earnest.
White Palace 199086% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Four Hands, Two Sonatas 202686% alikeTelevision · Both contemporary, classical in form, earnest.