Her best friend at school is named Rachel. She has a best friend named Sunny who attends a different school, but the girls are together most of the time on the weekends. The days she spends at a private school, populated mostly by white students, create a conflict within Reha who embraces her Indian culture but longs to be more like the other girls who attend her school. Reha is enmeshed in this lifestyle every day, especially on the weekends. Reha's parents, known as Amma and Daddy in this novel in verse, hold to many of the traditional beliefs of their Indian culture. Reha's parents moved to America from India before Reha was born, and the three of them make up a small but close-knit family. NOTE: As a novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole employs poems, instead of prose. Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY 10007. The following version of the novel in verse was used to create this study guide: LaRocca, Rajani.
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