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ISBN:	0771035934 (ISBN13: 9780771035937)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771035937

On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life
Author	:	Rupinder Gill
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	March 22nd 2011 by McClelland & Stewart
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Cultural. Canada. India. Biography. Biography Memoir. Humor

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There's a phenomenon in Amish culture called Rumspringa, where Amish adolescents are permitted to break free from their modest and traditional lifestyles to indulge in normally taboo activities. They dress how they want, go out if and when they please, smoke, drink and generally party like it's 1899. At the end they decide if they will return and join the Amish church.

"I am 30 years old. I wore my hair in two braids every day until I was 12. I dressed more conservatively than most Amish, barely left my house until I was 18 and spent the last 12 years studying and working hard on my career like a good little Indian girl. The time has come; you are witness to the dawning of my Indian Rumspringa, a Ram-Singha if you will. But instead of smoking and drinking Bud Lights in a park while yelling 'Down with barn raising!' I plan to indulge in a different manner — by pursuing everything I wish had been a part of my youth. Things I always felt were part of most North Americans' adolescent experience. I will learn to swim, go to summer camp, see Disneyworld, take dance lessons, have sleepovers and finally get the pet I longed for my whole life.

"This is the story of the ultimate New Year's resolution, more akin to a new life resolution. Will it all be fun? Will my friends and family support my walk down memory-less lane? Will it all matter in the end? I don't know yet but much like my young Rumspringaed-out counterpart, I will decide whether or not there is any going back.

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Funny writing, good punchlines and definitely hit some deeply familiar notes for me. A light read. But I think the premise of the book ("I'm going to through a list of things I wished I did in my childhood") distracted me from what the book really is (a memoir.)

Funny writing, good punchlines and definitely hit some deeply familiar notes for me. A light read. But I think the premise of the book ("I'm going to through a list of things I wished I did in my childhood") distracted me from what the book really is (a memoir.)

A nice and light read which one can relate to.

Let me start by repeating what everyone else has already said: the book is about the authors New Years resolution to make up for her lost childhood. Just the fact that she actually sticks to it and does not abandon it after the very first week should qualify the book as science fiction, because isnt abandonment a default, customary outcome for a New Years resolution? Anyway:The Good: 1. The book is indeed laugh out loud funny, in a Tina Fay-esque way. 2. She had a resolution and followed

Interesting premise wherein the author takes a year to accomplish all that she was denied growing up with strict Indian Sikh parents just outside Toronto, Canada. These things include sleepovers, summer camp, driving and swimming. Most of the time, I found the writing uninspiring and trying too hard to be funny. However, it picked up pace and interest after she moved to New York, and faced loneliness and poverty, but also forced herself to overcome challenges and gain new experiences such as

This was a fun book to read. The author grew up in an immigrant family just outside of Toronto and as a child did not get to do a lot of the things her friends and classmates got to do - like sleepovers, go to camp, have a pet, take swimming lessons, or vacation at Disney World. So when she turns 30 she decides she needs to make up for lost time and sets about doing all these things she feels she should have done as a kid. The reflections on her siblings, her parents, her friends, and her

Admittedly, I don't read very many autobiographies, but of the ones I've read, this one easily hit home the strongest. As a child of a South Asian immigrant, oh boy do I GET this book. I loved it, I related to the vast majority of the story, from missing out on a childhood to wishing you could have that later in life, to trying to balance two cultures, oh my goodness, I Get it. What a fantastic (and funny!) book. It's really nice to be able to read about the experiences of someone like me in a