Three Impossible Wishes

These marks on our palms are formed when we clench and unclench our fists in the womb. We make our own lines. In a way, we write our own destiny.

-Anmol Malik, ‘Three Impossible Wishes’.

Chocolatey, piquant, winsome and humorous, this book is the perfect slice-of-life fiction to be enjoyed on a lazy weekend.

The book is about a 19yr old Arya who’s accepted and is studying in Westley University and has missed her second year  basic level test albeit now she has to achieve a perfect score to clear the second year, avoid the risk of deportation and the wrath of her dad who thinks she’s a ‘bheja kam’. Thus starts her hassle for survival which starts with every student life hacks and ends up into a researched jugaad that requires pursuing the stubborn and stoic Vladimir Petrov. She has to also keep up with the desi filthy rich friends of her crush cum bestie Sahil and make the right moves to get Sahil love her back instead of being friendzoned. Arya is practically a dodo who’s filled with timidity, mad theories about love, self-doubt and her entangled talent around food and words.

It’s an intriguing, hilarious and a page-turner, I wanted to read just 80 pages for a day and – whoops – I read the entire book in a single sitting…that’s how amazing  it is.  It is a story about dreams and wishes; and how the most unusual wish comes true in the most unusual form only and only after one goes after it. It’s about misunderstandings, friendship, love, laughter, failure and above all the true meaning of family and it’s importance. About wacky ideas and facing risks, about people who would always go the extra mile just for you.

In all a delightful read, I simply loved it. If you love reading rom-com, realistic YA Books where people talk their age, heart-warming desi in vides reads go for it.