There’s Something About Sweetie

"I’ve been fat my whole life, and this is the book I desperately needed as a teenager. Sweetie Nair is a fat track star. She challenges thin, handsome basketball player Ashish Patel to a race – and wins. I love Sandhya Menon’s young adult books because she always writes three-dimensional teens who learn from each other and grow while falling in love. She also renders complicated, fully realized families and an insightful examination of desi culture. And her latest novel is a shrewdly radical endorsement for fat acceptance."