On the Outside Looking Indian

by Rupinder Gill

  I didn’t delude myself into thinking I would sit down and write the most brilliant television work the industry had ever seen and be instantly feted and ushered into jobs on all of my favorite shows. But a year ago I also didn’t think I would learn to swim, or leave my job, or walk down Main Street USA. Life was becoming a day-by-day adventure, and who knew what would be next? There was so much more to do. So please disregard the line after this one, because dear reader, I hope this is just the beginning.

  The end.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  A million thank-yous to the wonderful and talented Sarah Stein, and the amazing team at Riverhead for believing in this book. And for believing in me well before there was a reason to do so, thank you to Agent/Asian Extraordinaire Sam Hiyate.

  Thanks to Elizabeth Kribs, Trena White, Ashley Dunn, Doug Pepper, and everyone on my home team at McClelland & Stewart, peer readers and all-around good ladies Madeleine Di Gangi, Jaclyn Atwood and Jennifer Knox, the Gilda’s Club staff and campers, Angela Saclamacis at Disney, Ryan Wagman for the book’s title, Michael McGrath for basically everything, my sisters for their fact-checking and general love and encouragement, everyone who is featured in and has supported this book, and a debt of gratitude to Hannah Sung, without whom I would have never written this book or likely, anything at all.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Rupinder Gill’s writing has been published in the National Post and on the McSweeney’s website. She has written for CBC Radio and Canada’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes.