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This book is slowly starting to break my heart, what with its delving into the Indian revolution.

So far, as luminous as her other books.

"We're all trying our best, making mistakes, and hanging on by a thread....It's relaxing sometimes, just being human."

"The saddest realization I've had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment."

"When foreigners cook our food, they want to infuse their identity into the dish, they have a need to be part of the story and take it over. For some reason, Americans simply can't understand why this bothers us...It's imperialism at work in a sauté pan. You already have everything, do you really, really, really need a Burmese hood pass too? Can we live?"

"Our parents, Confucius, the model-minority bullshit, and kung-fu style discipline are what set us off. But Pac held us down." This book resonates like whoa for an immigrant kid.

Mindy Kaling has already mentioned My 600-lb Life and disarmingly told uncomfortable truths in the first 11 pages of her book. I have a feeling this will be a good read.

So excited about this book!

This book is a lot more absorbing than I expected it would be. I'm enjoying it a lot

Checking this book out from the library was the best decision I've made in a long time.