Publication date: May 4, 2021
My Thoughts:
This book by Tashie Bhuiyan is a YA romance perfect for readers who liked A Phó Love Story, and Don't Date Rosa Santos. It has a LGBTQ character, very loyal friends, a cool grandmother and a brother who is clueless but willing to learn.
This story is exactly how it is described by the publisher: a "fake" relationship that turns real, rich-bad-boy, nerdy-smart-girl, clash of cultural values, multiracial couple, common secrets, complicated parental relationships, complicated sibling relationships. What will also be helpful to readers in order to understand Karina Myra Ahmed is that she is a second generation Indian American with the stereotypical first generation parents. It also helps to understand the different expectations of daughters and sons. Understanding these things helps to make this less of a minority YA story and more of a mainstream American YA story.
Finally, from the author's note:
Someone gave me this advice at sixteen years old, and I hope to now impart it on you: stay as strong as you can. That's all we can do.
From the Publisher:
In this sparkling and romantic YA debut, 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.
How do you make one month last a lifetime?
Karina Ahmed has a plan. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules—even if it means sacrificing her dreams. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything.
Karina is my girlfriend.
Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. 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. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back.
T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal—but what if Karina no longer wants it to?
How do you make one month last a lifetime?
Karina Ahmed has a plan. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules—even if it means sacrificing her dreams. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything.
Karina is my girlfriend.
Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. 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. Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back.
T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal—but what if Karina no longer wants it to?
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