The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal by Ambika Vohra
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
*Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Children’s for a DRC in return for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Absolutely adored this book. It had wonderfully unique perspective, multiculturalism, and recognition of the overly stressed life of American teens. Aisha is a straight A, scholarship student at a prestigious private prep school. She is 1st generation Indian American and highly focused on college admissions. Actually, she is stumped by the essay prompt for her dream school, Stanford, which asks her to write about a time when she left her comfort zone. Unfortunately, in her goal to get top grades, she has not really lived her life. She thinks that her luck has finally changed when her crush asks her to the winter formal and then stands her up.
Like the rom-com this is, cue the drama and the decision to make a change. Of course, before she can make that decision, she gets into a car meant for a friends’ grandmother and has a good sob. Fortunately, the driver is also a high school senior going to the local public school and he is failing math. The two strike up a deal to help each other and of course a love triangle is created. While hitting the cheesy rom com tropes at times, all in all, this was a really wonderful story.
