Sick of Being Healthy

Sick of being healthy is a story of a teenage girl and her insecurities and challenges she faces growing up. Protagonist Tara is brought up in an army family and is schooled in army influence. It is expected of her to be in an ideal punctual and disciplined kid. But Tara is a regular girl with her own share of problems and being overweight lies on top of the list of problems.  Monisha K’s book Sick of Being Healthy narrates the story of every other teenage girl and gives us an insight of the challenges and they all have some story to tell. Monisha has diligently about some of the biggest and less talked about teenage insecurities prevailing in Indian society. This book is humorous and has its share of serious moments. When the book talks about challenges it also provides with solution which are not only relevant but also realistic. Through Tara Kapoor Monisha touches almost all the circumstances and incidents a young girl faces either Tara facing them or her friends or her sister. Tara is overweight and an average student who is expected to perform at par with other meritorious students. She fancies a young lad but he is in relationship with her BFF. The humor in this book is subtle yet prominent and so is Tata’s personality a vibrant young girl with thought of her own. She gets obsessed in shedding some weight quick before farewell so that she can cast an aura and spell with her new curvy lean figure but fails miserably and fells sick. The story touches various aspects such as sex education, teenage crush and infatuation, depression, expectation and inferiority, cyber identity and bullying and last but not least loneliness.

The book is super easy and fun to read the language is simple and clipart and diary entries make it more interesting but the highlights are Tara’s passage for school newsletter. A good book and some valuable life lesson for growing teenagers.

A humorous read which will leave you in splits.

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