{"id":10697,"date":"2019-05-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:19:34","slug":"fast-fat-funny-real-theres-something-about-sweetie-for-him-by-sandhya-menon-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10697","title":{"rendered":"Fast, fat, funny, real – THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT SWEETIE for him, by Sandhya Menon (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Parent-arranged dates,
\nhokey or helpful?
\nHopefully heal his heartbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashish needs to get over his breakup (first time he’s ever been dumped) and get back his basketball groove, and his Indian-American parents think setting him up with a nice Desi girl<\/a> will help?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweetie wants her mom to realize that losing weight won’t make the high school junior happier (her friends love her right now) or run any faster (no one can beat her on the track), but how? Time for ‘Project Sassy Sweetie’ and getting out of her comfort zone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four very specific dates (and a behavior contract – Pappa is always a businessman) – Ashish’s Ma is sure that Sweetie is the perfect girl for him, but his love-and-leave reputation in the close-knit Bay area Desi community makes Sweetie’s mother say no to the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Sweetie says yes (Project Sassy Sweetie!), so off they go, to the temple and the Holi festival<\/a> and his eccentric aunt’s place, each time enjoying one another’s company more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surely, on their fourth date for Sweetie’s birthday party, Amma will see this indeed was a good idea\u2026
Surely, Ashish’s white ex-girlfriend will completely fade from his memory\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Told in alternating chapters, this fun (but not frivolous) romantic story is a May 2019 companion to When Dimple Met Rishi<\/em> (Ashish’s perfect big brother) – you can enjoy this book without reading the other (my no-spoiler recommendation here<\/a>), but make yourself happier by reading both!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What ingrained family opinion have you overcome for the better?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: There’s Something About Sweetie \/ Sandhya Menon. Simon Pulse, 2019. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parent-arranged dates, hokey or helpful? Hopefully heal his heartbreak. Ashish needs to get over his breakup (first time he’s ever been dumped) and get back his basketball groove, and his Indian-American parents think setting him up with a nice Desi girl will help? Sweetie wants her mom to realize that losing weight won’t make the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[90,130,7,4,75,105,11,16,18,40,44,46,97,302,39,184,86,15,206,9,21,14,35,3,8],"class_list":["post-10697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-basketball","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-habits","tag-indian-american","tag-love","tag-mothers","tag-music","tag-relationships","tag-religion","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sports","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/theres-something-about-sweetie-9781534416789_xlg.jpg?fit=596%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10710,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions\/10710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}