Worst of all for a girl who hates showing her feelings, she starts breaking out into song and dance routines in the middle of school, with her classmates filling in as backup dancers. When she feels a surge of strong emotion, walls and even objects change around her into bright and shiny Bollywood versions of themselves.
She hears a soundtrack all the time, with percussion when she’s upset and themes for important people in her life. The morning after her parents announce that they’re separating, Sonali wakes to find that her life has become a Bollywood movie of its own. The one thing that bonds both Sonali’s family and friends together is their love of classic 80s and 90s Bollywood movies. Certainly not her best friend, even as Zara pushes her to join drama class, which Sonali dreads, and starts to become closer with another girl, leaving Sonali out. Since then, she’s refused to let anyone know her true feelings – not her parents, though their arguments have only gotten worse, and not her younger brother Ronak. Her parents scolded her for putting family issues on display, and it did nothing to stop the fighting. When she was in first grade and her parents first started fighting, Sonali did a big, glittery presentation on why parents fighting was bad for children for the whole extended family. Read from library copy. Ebook and audiobook available on Libby.
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