There's Something About Sweetie is the natural companion to Dimple as it features Rishi's younger black-sheep brother Ashish. If Rishi is the golden boy in the Patel family, basketball star Ashish is a player, able to get any girl he sets his eye on. Unfortunately for his parents, none of those girls are Indian. After Ashish gets his heart broken by his latest girlfriend, he finally decides to let his parents play matchmaker, and he meets Sweetie. Sweetie Nair is every bit the star athlete that Ashish is, except on the track, despite her plus-size physique. And therein lies the rub. While Sweetie embraces her size, her mother does not, and she refuses to allow Sweetie to date Ashish.
Again, I don't want to give too much away, but this is the first book in ages that I read all in one day, if that tells you anything. Also, I think this is a really important book for teachers to have on their shelves because of the theme of size shaming. As someone who has gained and lost the same 20 pounds a hundred times in my life, I absolutely understand the struggle with being fat (and kudos to Sweetie for not applying a stigma to that word as the rest of society has done). In Sweetie, Menon has created a character who explores and pushes back against societal expectations of size and size shaming, and it's about time! Highly highly recommended!
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