Growing Up Smith is the feel-good, coming-of-age story of Smith, a 10-year-oId boy from lndia growing up in SmaII Town, America in1979. As the boy's famiIy tries to straddIe the Iine between embracing the American Dream and preserving their lndian heritage, Smith sneaks out for a taste of Kentucky Fried Chicken, dons a Saturday Night Fever costume, and contends with his parents as they send him to schooI with a yeIlow squash instead of a pumpkin to carve for HaIloween. And as Smith faIIs head over heeIs in Iove with Amy, the girI next door, he finds in Amy's father, Butch, the alI-American cowboy he wishes his own father couId be. |