Like Linda, who believes the diary-like manuscript Reshma assembles is fictional, readers will easily fall for debut author Kanakia’s heroine, even when she’s at her most ruthless or misguided. The lawsuit-and Reshma’s subsequent op-ed in the Huffington Post, “Double Standards for Asian Students”-lead her to sign with a literary agent, Linda Montrose, telling her that she has been working on a YA novel (which she has not). Reshma Kapoor will do anything to ensure her spot as valedictorian, including suing her school for changing its grading policy just prior to her senior year.
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