![]() ![]() For Rishi Patel, its a chance to woo his. Shah, technology camp at Stanford is a breath of fresh air from her mothers obsession with finding her a husband. Menon’s novel, which Netflix adapted into the 2017 series Mismatched, was lauded for its sweet and hilarious takes not only on young love, but also on the experiences of first-generation Indian Americans. A captivating book that ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with. But in the face of their many differences and the pressures of their family expectations, the two find a connection uniquely their own. A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged for them to be married. While there, Rishi and Dimple are paired together and, inevitably, tensions rise and sparks fly. Rishi Patel, on the other hand, is a hopeless romantic whose main interest in attending the same program is the possibility of meeting his future wife, after his parents tell him that the young woman they had in mind happens to be signed up. Dimple Shah is an ambitious 18-year-old tech nerd with a passion for coding and an aversion to her mother’s insistence that she find the “ideal Indian husband.” She’s overjoyed when she’s sent to an app-development camp for the summer, and is intent on winning the program competition and keeping all other distractions at bay. Girl-meets-boy gets a charming update in Sandhya Menon’s hilarious romantic novel, When Dimple Met Rishi, published in 2017. ![]()
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