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When Dimple Met Rishi

by Sandhya Menon

A summer coding camp becomes a meeting point for ambition, family expectations, and romance.

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A summer coding camp becomes a meeting point for ambition, family expectations, and romance.

Dimple Shah arrives at a summer program for aspiring web developers believing it represents her family’s support for her plans. Rishi Patel arrives with a different understanding: his parents have told him Dimple is the girl he is meant to woo. Their collision brings questions of self-reliance and tradition into a young-adult romantic comedy, with the pair’s Indian American identities and their families’ matchmaking expectations shaping the setup. The dual point of view frames the connection from both sides, while the coding camp gives the story a shared setting beyond the family plans that brought them together.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in contemporary romantic comedies.
  • Readers curious about stories involving Indian American families and matchmaking traditions.
  • Readers interested in young protagonists balancing personal goals with family expectations.

Themes

Self-reliance and personal ambitionFamily expectationsTradition and matchmakingYoung love

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Book overview

The inspiration for the Netflix original seriesMismatched!
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

Two Indian American teens sent to the same coding camp by matchmaking parents--the boy in on the plan and the girl totally blindsided--develop an unexpected, genuine connection in this "effervescent" (Chicago Tribune), New York Times bestselling, dual POV young adult rom-com from Sandhya Menon.

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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