Kamala is a nice gal with an ordinary life, but who has trouble fitting in and always feels a smidgen off-kilter.

She sincerely loves her family, but also feels some resentment about her culture and religion always making her different, and getting in the way of her being one of the cool kids.

As a consequence, most of her preferred activities are online, where she can be pseudonymous as a gamer and fanfic writer.

She doesn’t have many friends IRL. And there’s no Pakistani American community in her corner of Jersey (most people at the masjid seem to be Turkish American or Iranian American).

She’s proud of being a Jersey girl, though