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Young World
Excellent teen read
SELINE AUGUSTINE
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It’s a long road from dreams to reality…
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She did not like being called Indira though it was her name. She might have been able to live with it if her “last name was not Gandhi”. The name did not let her be herself as she felt she had to live up to a preconceived image. So she called herself Indie, short, sweet and memorable.
Fifteen-year-old Indie went to school in a suburb of Los Angeles and was passionate about fashion and could talk at length about Donna Karan’s signature look or the resurgence of Pucci.
When Aaralyn Taylor, editor of Celebrity Style whom she idolised came to address the students, Indie was in raptures. Hoping to pocket the summer internship in the magazine she ends up babysitting Taylor’s toddler Kyle during weekends. If that was the way she could realise her dream of becoming a fashion journalist, so be it.
The teen puts up with the downright bad behaviour of haughty Aaralyn. In fact Indie helps get a major scoop for the magazine — Oscan-winning mega star Trixie Van Alden plans to get her couture wedding gown done in India.
She deals Aaralyn a career-saving coup when the latter most needs it, besides putting her wise to her chauffeur who was leaking inside information to a popular website called gossipaddict.com.
But the arrogant and grace-less Aaralyn does not even ensure the internship for starry-eyed Indie whom we expect to be given at least an assistant editor’s job. It’s Indie’s mom who finally ticks her off. Aaralyn makes up at the very end by admitting that Indie has what it takes to make it big in fashion journalism.
Author Kavita Daswani was fashion correspondent to CNN International and CNBC Asia and had edited South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.
This is her first novel for young adults and she captures the reader’s attention right from the beginning and sustains it till the end with a good storyline, fast pace and dialogue. Teens will enjoy reading this book.
A GIRL NAMED INDIE
by Kavita Daswani Teen fiction A Puffin book. Rs 200.
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