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Boomer. Misfit. Same Difference
Lolita’s first book of columns about her life is packed with her sometimes acerbic wit but with wisdom thrown in almost sotto voce. You will love her catchy multifaceted and relatable anecdotes of an intercontinental life, with all its related issues. Her life has had more than its fair share of trials and tribulations, but she manages to let her trademark humour rule.
This collection is a delightful offering, with her honest experiences about working and living in a foreign country, making a life and friends there, and the escapades of youth. She handles all the topics with elan, much humour and a charming lack of grace, be it having a baby three months before she was even physically prepared for it, the trials of being a new mother in a country where a million aunts did not converge to help the baby grow, where she had to handle everything with no help in the initial weeks.
Lolita and her young family returned to India and she is an employee at an IT giant. Her columns are peppered with anecdotes about corporate life, and her place in it. She shines the spotlight on a number of things but all the time, she laughs and has you laughing too.
With the son grown she talks about important issues like racism, parties, and being a mother locked half a world away from her only child during a global pandemic when he was protesting at the Black Lives Matter rallies.
What makes the book and her feelings so real is the fact that they are. All lived experiences.
This collection is a delightful offering, with her honest experiences about working and living in a foreign country, making a life and friends there, and the escapades of youth. She handles all the topics with elan, much humour and a charming lack of grace, be it having a baby three months before she was even physically prepared for it, the trials of being a new mother in a country where a million aunts did not converge to help the baby grow, where she had to handle everything with no help in the initial weeks.
Lolita and her young family returned to India and she is an employee at an IT giant. Her columns are peppered with anecdotes about corporate life, and her place in it. She shines the spotlight on a number of things but all the time, she laughs and has you laughing too.
With the son grown she talks about important issues like racism, parties, and being a mother locked half a world away from her only child during a global pandemic when he was protesting at the Black Lives Matter rallies.
What makes the book and her feelings so real is the fact that they are. All lived experiences.
155 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2022
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January 17, 2023
What a wonderful read! Love the way the book is a breezy read and so relatable to various age groups. I could totally relate to an incident where the mother in her takes precedence over a cause that is for the greater good.. and laughed out loud at the stapler incident, and there are numerous such moments in the book which makes you chuckle out loud :-) ... Do write more, Lolita :-)
January 1, 2023
I still read books. Despite unruly office hours and calls that often extend beyond their stipulated time, I manage to read all the books about cinema I can lay my hands on. Of late, I have got a kindle installed on my laptop, but my comfort zone remains the paperback version. I can take it to bed with me. And start reading when I wake up once my wife hands over my glasses. And this often happens to a book I like. Something which has been the case with Boomer. Misfit. Same Difference......by Lolita Chattoraj Sengupta.
First things first. The title sounds confusing. Talks about old age? Growing up? Children and generation gap? Well, it does, in fact a lot more. The author proudly categorizes it as a work of non-fiction. And it is one of the best of its kind you will ever read. The sentences flow like water. Streamline. Having written a few non-fiction books myself, I realize this book is different. The editor is not sniffing down your neck. You have been given the liberty to freewheel. Like a Facebook post. And connect the stories in a manner that is most organic.
I loved it. I smiled, I giggled at times (something which is said to the domain of women). I laughed aloud. Retrospection followed. And then I went back to the book.
Read it. You will fall in love with the experiences described. And the manner in which these have been described.
February 5, 2023
A chilled bowl of mangoes on a warm day.
With wit, candour and what I can only call Lali-isms, this book is an easy and delightful read. Beneath the levity is gentle wisdom from a life well lived, even with bumps and heartaches along the way.
Reading Lali feels like sitting with her through a lazy afternoon, and talking about life and memories, as friends do. There is some out-and -out hilarity as in the episode with the postman, the frequent exchanges with the husband, even as they are endearing, and her trysts with losing weight.
Today we are told over and over again from all kinds of life coaches to be authentic, to be ourselves, to let our inner truth shine. Reading this book is knowing that for some people, like Lali, they really do not know another way. And we are lucky to know them, to have them as friends and if they have a book that needs out, read them.
When life gets heavy, when there is too much clutter and chatter, i recommend picking this book up, finding a cozy nook and an unhealthy snack to chomp on, and losing yourself in the life and times of this self proclaimed (and delightful) boomer and misfit.
With wit, candour and what I can only call Lali-isms, this book is an easy and delightful read. Beneath the levity is gentle wisdom from a life well lived, even with bumps and heartaches along the way.
Reading Lali feels like sitting with her through a lazy afternoon, and talking about life and memories, as friends do. There is some out-and -out hilarity as in the episode with the postman, the frequent exchanges with the husband, even as they are endearing, and her trysts with losing weight.
Today we are told over and over again from all kinds of life coaches to be authentic, to be ourselves, to let our inner truth shine. Reading this book is knowing that for some people, like Lali, they really do not know another way. And we are lucky to know them, to have them as friends and if they have a book that needs out, read them.
When life gets heavy, when there is too much clutter and chatter, i recommend picking this book up, finding a cozy nook and an unhealthy snack to chomp on, and losing yourself in the life and times of this self proclaimed (and delightful) boomer and misfit.
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