Wyn Connor and Harriet Kilpatrick were the perfect couple-until Wyn dumped Harriet for reasons she still doesn’t fully understand.
As Dev swaps Austen's Regency England for aristocratic India, she credibly builds a world in which social privilege insulates upper-class and upper-caste men from the consequences of their actions.Īn endearing romance that sensitively depicts the poignancy of loss and reconciliation.Įxes pretend they’re still together for the sake of their friends on their annual summer vacation. The second installment in the Raje Family series, following Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors (2019), is ripe with an insider's understanding of Indian, specifically Maharashtrian, culture: luscious references to traditional food and attire jostle with bitter reminders of several deeply entrenched social and religious biases. As Ashna's story unravels alongside her mother's, the novel deftly unpacks some of the ways in which Indian women's experiences of oppression have changed with time, though Dev details Shoban's crusade against patriarchy with much more empathy and insight than her daughter's. With his return to her life, Ashna is forced to confront not only her painful past, but also her strained relationship with her mother, Shoban.
Since their relationship had been uncommonly intense, Rico and Ashna are still nursing scars from their painfully abrupt separation. But old wounds resurface when Ashna is partnered with award-winning international soccer star Rico Silva, her high school boyfriend. So when she's offered a role on Cooking With the Stars, a reality TV show that pairs celebrities with professional chefs for a range of culinary challenges, Ashna decides to overcome her natural reticence and join the cast. Ashna needs money to save her father's legacy and a job to keep her overachieving mother out of her hair. Once the most popular Indian outlet in Palo Alto, Curried Dreams is now running the risk of closure. A traumatized Indian American chef is pushed over the edge when she reencounters her teenage love in this modern-day interpretation of Persuasion.Īshna Raje, daughter of Prince Bram of Sripore, is struggling to breathe life into her late father's luxury restaurant.
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