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“Utterly charming.” —Mindy Kaling “Effervescent.”—Chicago Tribune “Full of warm characters and sweet romance.”—Entertainment Weekly “Get ready to fall in love with Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel.”—HelloGiggles
The rom-comeveryone’stalking about!Eleanor & Parkmeets Bollywood in this hilarious and heartfelt novel about two Indian-American teens whose parents conspire to arrange their marriage.
Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husbandright now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishiwantsto be arranged,believesin the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.
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