Status Updates From The Vibrant Years

P256 Aie and Baba are Bindu’s parents. Aie tried to kill Bindu. Baba collapsed. Bindu met Dr. Rajendra Desai at the hospital. Oscar’s wife swallowed sleeping pills.

P267 I (Rishi) want to make a documentary about the making of Poornima. With you (Bindu).

P247 Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" comes from the 1808 epic poem Marmion by Scottish author Sir Walter Scott.

P256 There is only shame if people know, Tajendra whispered into her skin. Then he’d taught her how to hide to live around what you wanted.

P230 "Rohan?"
He groaned, the sound tearing from him. "That's not my name?" The eyes he turned on her were so filled with torment, she took a step back.
"My name is not Rohan. It's Rishi, Rishi Seth." He waited as though that should mean something to her.
… “I’m in America because I’ve been looking for your grandmother.”

She used to wash me from head to toe with milk to get rid of the tan Binji let me pick up. All Binji said to that was, It's a small price to pay to get to lie there listening to the ocean, isn't it?' Not that she ever said that to Granny Karen.

P225 Colorism: "That's funny because Binji took me to the beach almost every day over the summer. She had a giant beach umbrella. Shed set it up, and wed lie under it for hours. I just had to stay under the umbrella so I didn't get too dark, because my granny Karen-that's my mom's mom—would have a meltdown if Binji let me lose my "fairness?

P215 Bindu: Hatred is what you felt for yourself for not knowing who your son’s father was. And for hiding that from him his entire life.

P220 Bindu and neighbor/friend Weaselly Leslie

P195 "I's my grandfather's journal." He (Rohan) squeezed his eyes shut, then opened them again, storms raging inside. "It's his account of a love affair from his youth. He gave it to me on the day of his death."

Mansplained is the past-tense form of "mansplain," a term describing when a man explains something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, or oversimplified way, often assuming she knows less than she does—even when she is an expert.