Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir, spilling all the chai on her wild ride from escaping an arranged marriage and homelessness in India to carving her own path in America and launching a dazzling second act in midlife. A deeply honest and hilarious book about how you always win if you bet on yourself.Amy Poehler Throughout Zarnas whole childhood in India, everyone called her so American just for reading the newspaper, having deep thoughts, and talking back to anyone over the age of thirty. When Zarnas dad tried to marry her off at age fourteen, Zarna fledfirst to the streets of Mumbai and ultimately to the glittering paradise of Akron, Ohio, where she got to become American for real. On Zarnas very American quest to find herself and her calling, she threw herself wholeheartedly into roles like dog-bite lawyer, crazy perfectionist stay-at-home mom, Indian matchmaker, prizewinning screenwriter, and more. It wasnt until a dare led her to a stand-up comedy open mic that Zarna finally found her spiritual home: getting paid cold hard cash for her big fat mouth. And as Zarna discovered, after surviving the brutal streets of Mumbai, the cutthroat world of stand-up comedy is nothing. This American Woman is an exuberant story of fighting for your right to determine your own destiny and triumphing beyond what you ever dreamed was possible. Zarnas mantra becomes a call to action: Its never too late. If Zarna can do it, you can, too.
