My thoughts:
My public library system has ebooks. That is not a new thing. It is just a new thing to me, but seriously, it has messed up my life and made working and sleeping very difficult.
Ever since Oyster (the Netflix for books) went out of business, I have been totally depressed and I have not been reading much for pleasure. However, who knew that my public library looks like Oyster with the same depth of books, and for FREE?! Fool. Where have I been all this time?
I am not sure why, but one of the categories that pops up in my library loan browser is Asian authors/characters, so I notice I have been reading a lot of minority literature. This book about two Indian American teens was just devoured because it is not just a romcom, but because it has just enough push and pull of filial piety and the conflict that family and culture causes to be interesting. That is why I like minority literature or stories with characters of different cultural/ethnic groups because there is that added conflict and tension of culture/place/spirit.
Plus, this story is just cute. I am not a cutesy reader, but it was cute in a good way.
Note: I have a hard time with audio books but I also liked the audio book of this. Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC, narrated by Sneha Mathan and Vikas Adam.
From the publishers:
The rom-com everyone’s talking about! Eleanor & Park meets 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 husband right 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, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.
The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?
Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
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