A review by kendraahampton
The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen by Mitali Perkins

2.0

Read for an American Literature course. This was just okay. Tolerable. It’s a tale of an India girl being insecure about her identity and is even more so embarrassed when her grandparents come to visit for a year. Her household is turn upside down and she must navigate who she is with while she thinks she should be. The story is slow and character driven. Characters are easy to like but the main character is simply annoying. I believe she was written to be so that is not what bothered me about the novel. Mostly, what I was hoping for was outside forces making Sunita feel inferior but there were none. And maybe that was the point. Maybe the overall moral is that no one is a bigger critic of you than you. I think this would be a great story for someone in their eerily teens but for me, a 26 year old, I just found it to be okay.