Anticipated Release: Enter Title Here by Rahul Kanakia

My schedule is a bit off, so yes, it isn’t Wednesday, but I can still talk about books releasing soon that I’m excited to read.

Today’s pick is a book that is coming out on Tuesday, August 2nd:

I’m your protagonist—Reshma Kapoor—and if you have the free time to read this book, then you’re probably nothing like me.

Reshma is a college counselor’s dream. 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. 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.

What’s a habitual over-achiever to do? Land herself a literary agent, of course. Which is exactly what Reshma does after agent Linda Montrose spots an article she wrote for Huffington Post. 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.

But she’s convinced no one would want to read a novel about a study machine like her. To make herself a more relatable protagonist, she must start doing all the regular American girl stuff she normally ignores. For starters, she has to make a friend, then get a boyfriend. 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.

Of course, even with a mastermind like Reshma in charge, things can’t always go as planned. And when the valedictorian spot begins to slip from her grasp, she’ll have to decide just how far she’ll go for that satisfying ending. (Note: It’s pretty far.)

I love this synopsis. I don’t want to have too many high expectations of where the story should go, but I do love satire and metafiction, which this definitely is. I can also relate to the feeling that one’s school-focused life (though I was much lest focused on college admissions than Reshma0) is “boring,” and the idea of a perfect storyline of how life should go.

What do you think? What other books are you looking forward to?