'Takes all the expected stories about growing up Indian American, slices them open with razor-sharp wit, and turns them inside out' CELESTE NG, author of Our Missing Hearts'A fierce and marvelous book with an utterly unique, brightly burning lifeforce' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD, author of Great Circle'Tender, defiant, and formally daring ... I fell in love with McConigley's fierce, wry narrator Georgie Ayyar from the first page and couldn't stop reading' JESSAMINE CHAN, author of The School for Good MothersInventive and captivating ... Full of heart and soul, this is a knockout work - AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, author of World of Wonders'Spirited and witty, stylish and audacious' MEGHA MAJUMDAR, author of A Burning