Few careers in American comedy have begun as unexpectedly as Zarna Garg’s. At fourteen, she left her home in Mumbai after refusing an arranged marriage, rebuilt her life in Akron, Ohio, earned a law degree, and spent sixteen years as a New York City stay-at-home mom before her daughter encouraged her to try stand-up comedy. Within a few years, she had won Kevin Hart’s Lyft Comics competition, been named one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch, and opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on their Restless Leg Tour. Her memoir, This American Woman, became a New York Times bestseller, cementing her place as one of the most remarkable late-blooming careers in American comedy.
