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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 Zarna�s 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 Zarna�s dad tried to marry her off at age fourteen, Zarna fled�first to the streets of Mumbai and ultimately to the glittering paradise of Akron, Ohio, where she got to become American for real. On Zarna�s 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 wasn�t 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. Zarna�s mantra becomes a call to action: It�s never too late. If Zarna can do it, you can, too.