Member Review

The American Woman: A One-In-A-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg is hilarious, heart-rending, and honest. (And, I always love a book that will lend itself to using alliteration. You'll hear if you breathe hard when you say honest.) I wasn’t familiar with Zarna—even though she has won awards as a comedienne—but because of the book, I’m now stalking her on social media. If you can make me laugh out loud when I’m reading, then you MUST be even funnier when you’re delivering the material, right? Plus, we have a granddaughter who was born in India, and the culture intrigues me.

I’m always wondering how anyone has enough material to write a memoir. I mean, there are so many memoirs now…Can all these people have lives interesting enough to keep me reading for three hundred pages? Well, I don’t know about all the people, but Zarna does.

You’ll laugh, be inspired by, learn from, root for, be surprised by and admire this middle-aged woman who succeeded by carving out an unconventional and remarkable path.

Thanks to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for an advance review copy.