They are a tightly knit group of three girls just surviving high school and everything that comes with it. Karina had her dadu for support and her girlfriends. **I can’t comment much on the Muslim representation, I see a lot of reviews on Goodreads marking this book a low rating because of it. Also Karina has major anxiety because of these family pressures and it was good to see how she suffers and deals with it. I loved that this story was about a Bangladeshi and Muslim girl and we got to see her family dynamics. Being a perfect child is so hard and such an unreasonable expectation. I love that she had her dadu for support and telling her she’s a good kid and loved – that’s so important because it’s so easy for teens to fear disappointing their parents and think they are loved less because they don’t stand up to their standards. My parents were very strict as well, so I related to Karina a lot in that aspect. Parents uproot their whole lives in their motherland country to give their children a better life somewhere else. Karina gets a breather when her parents go to Bangladesh for a month.įirst off, this story is relatable to a lot of immigrant or first generation American children. Her parents want her to be a doctor but she wants to major in English after high school and she is trying her best to make them happy. T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal-but what if Karina no longer wants it to?Ĭontent Warning: Anxiety, Family PressuresĪll immigrant families want is a better life for their children and Karina knows this with all her heart. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back.
But Ace Clyde does everything right-he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books (a week) if she goes along with his fake-dating facade. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet.
Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules-even if it means sacrificing her dreams. How do you make one month last a lifetime? A reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy.
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