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Graphic novels are my newfound love and this one is definitely going to stay in my Bookshelf. I read it during a very boring/rainy Sunday afternoon, traditionally I do not like Sundays as my Husband starts his workweek as well as the impending Monday Blues to go back to work. But this book made my mood happier, fluffier and lighter, kind of a feeling I used to get when I was in my tween and when I  would go catch a new Bollywood Rom-Com with my sister.

This book captures all the essence a diaspora Indian family goes through in a foreign country. Although I moved here in my twenties and I always imagined how it would be to grow up in an Indian Household in America. Tina goes through all these thought process as a growing teen in an Indian American household in California. How she fits into the diaspora Indian community as well as her cosmopolitan American schoolmates while searching for her own identity. Her "Existentialism" project and her daily diary entries dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre will take the readers through a journey through Tina's lenses.  How the Indian community even in USA is still a closed knit community hanging out with Indian friends and goes through matchmaking process through friends and relatives for their eligible kids. 

All in all this is not just another High school novel, but a lot more than that. I being myself belonging to the same community there is no exaggeration and a pretty acute representation of how it is in reality.

For the artwork is simple and only black and white, I like the simplicity of the artwork but I myself thought may be the book needed a little bit more detailed graphic art.

I recommend this book for all YA lovers and Graphic Novel lovers.