What a fun twist on an important topic! Understanding and allowing yourself to feel emotions when difficult things happen is really important. Eventually, Sonali discovers that she needs to be in touch with her emotions and that allowing herself to feel sad and angry will help bring the world back to normal. Her parents get crazy Bollywood makeovers and rooms change to bright technicolor designs. When Sonali expresses amazement at the changes, everyone around her is surprised - this is the way the world has always been for them! At first, Sonali thinks that she needs to hide her emotions even better to make “Bollywooditis” go away, but it doesn’t work.
Then something weird happens - her life turns into one long Bollywood movie! She wakes up one day to discover that she has a personal soundtrack that plays all the time in the background and occasionally people break into song to express their emotions.
She’s refusing to face her emotions about her parents’ separation and instead hides her feelings from her friends and family, which is causing problems in her relationship with her best friend, Zara. She and her little brother Ronak’s parents fight all the time, but Sonali is keeping it a secret from all her friends (partly due to her father’s insistence on secrecy and keeping family business private).
What did you like about the book? Sonali is an Indian American girl whose family is coming apart. Rating 1-5 (5 is an excellent or starred review) 4 That Thing about Bollywood – Supriya Kelkar Simon Kids 9781534466739, 2021
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