I'll admit, I felt apprehensive when I first found out about this book. Growing up in Australia, I found that "being Indian" was often stereotyped as speaking Hindi and being obsessed with Bollywood.

Her journey from Ursuline student to one of Forbes’ world’s most powerful ... up in and what you see and read of it now, what do you think the biggest changes are—good and bad? I loved ...

At another, he read an unsourced passage from a book about the ... and seemed to give up. Maybe it was hopeless. Maybe nobody wanted to hear a rich heir from a powerful family complain about ...

And then we also have like newer figures like singers and artists, because we really wanted kids to be able to see themselves reflected in the book. Like when I was growing up, I was an artist ...

It took me a while to count the works listed under “Also by Dave Barry” in the front of “Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up.” ...