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Born confused
by Tanuja Desai Hidier
First Published
2009
Subjects
East Indian Americans
East Indian American teenagers
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Best friends
Friendship
Photography
Identity
Identity (Psychology)
Juvenile Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Reading Level-Grade 9
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 10
Reading Level-Grade 12
Children's fiction
Identity, fiction
Friendship, fiction
Photography, fiction
Individuality
Girls
Teenagers
Frienship
Indian Americans
Behavior, fiction
Family life, fiction
Description
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.