A Heart-warming YA Tale!
Review by Ronica Wahi Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life…and a Man By Reenita Malhotra Hora Published: August 22, 2022, Zenith Publishing. Pages: 220. ISBN: 9781958503089 Cute, light-hearted, entertaining, and at times, funny, Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life…and a Man by Reenita Malhotra Hora is a young adult novel, whose protagonist – well – does exactly what the title and the subtitle suggest. Ila, the protagonist, is a teenager who – like all teenagers – has certain issues with how her mom wants her to live; part of what her mom wants is that she give up her obsession with Ali Zafar and find a boyfriend for herself. Ila, helped by her best friend Deepali and one of Deepali’s three boyfriends – Dev, whom Ila herself is attracted to, sets out to find a man for her single mother instead. The plot is fun, and the narrative flows really smooth. The best portion of the novel is when Ila, after cr