
Of course, even with a mastermind like Reshma in charge, things can't always go as planned. And she's already planned the perfect ending: after struggling for three hundred pages with her own perfectionism, Reshma will learn that meaningful relationships can be more important than success-a character arc librarians and critics alike will enjoy. For starters, she has to make a friend, then get a boyfriend. To make herself a more relatable protagonist, she must start doing all the regular American girl stuff she normally ignores. Linda wants to represent Reshma, and, with her new agent's help scoring a book deal, Reshma knows she'll finally have the key to Stanford.īut she's convinced no one would want to read a novel about a study machine like her. Which is exactly what Reshma does after agent Linda Montrose spots an article she wrote for Huffington Post. What's a habitual over-achiever to do? Land herself a literary agent, of course.


But there are plenty of perfect students in the country, and if Reshma wants to get into Stanford, and into med school after that, she needs the hook to beat them all. She's the top-ranked senior at her ultra-competitive Silicon Valley high school, with a spotless academic record and a long roster of extracurriculars.
