How To Dance In a Sari is by Dona Sarkar. The book is about a sixteen year old girl named Issa who is not accepted in the social circuit at school because as most people would say, she's a nerd. Issa is living happily as a wallflower with perfect grades and three great friends, one of them being her mother, Alisha. The one thing she isn't happy with is the future with twists and turns she has no idea about.
It all begins when her boyfriend Adam dumps her for popular Cuban beauty, Cat Morena, her arch enemy. Issa's insides twist into a not she thinks will never untie. It then hits her quite hard when Alisha tells her that she is engaged to Cat's father, Diego. All she wants is to break them up and ruin Cat's life in the process. Cat pretends not to care that she has to share everything with her soon to be sister, including her dad, which is the most important thing to her. Issa uses this and all the money Diego has to her advantage. She becomes a new Cat, complete with designer bags, a posy, and a voice used specifically bringing people down. When she finally and completely switches places with Cat and s badmouthing her in front of many people, her friends see her as the person she has become and leaves her. After these incidents, she realizes how bad she has gotten and how good Cat is, especially with her mom, Alisha. Issa misses the people she loves and must work herself hard to return to the nice, straight A person she was, and must find a relationship with Cat.
I have seen this particular kind of character change in many different books and movies. I have noticed that most people in these books and movies do switch around their lives in anger and resentment. This book was slightly repetitive for me, but was no humdrum. I have come to realize that there is a major lesson in them. Sometimes, the most horrible people need love to become better, not hate, and in the end, loving is the same amount of work.
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