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When Dimple Met Rishi
June 2021: Beach Reads
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[✈] When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon - 4.5 stars
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I really liked this one when I read it last year.
Also super enjoyed this when I read it a couple years ago. I forgot that is the first in a series, I should pick up the next one!
Joi wrote: "Also super enjoyed this when I read it a couple years ago. I forgot that is the first in a series, I should pick up the next one!"Just put on my TBR next by author shelf.
She is an outspoken feminist science nerd starting Stanford in the fall. He is quieter, more conservative, an artist at heart heading to MIT to follow in his engineer father's footsteps. Meet Dimple and Rishi, two of the most delightful young adults I ever hope to meet.
Dimple's mother just doesn't seem to understand her daughter's passion for science and a career in coding; she is forever pushing Dimple to be more girly in order to find that IIH (Ideal Indian Husband), get married and produce grandchildren. Rishi is the eldest son, embracing the hopes and dreams of his parents, feeling a strong sense of responsibility to his family and tradition; however, Rishi is a gifted comics artist. Their first encounter is an epic meet-cute! Yes, the romance is delightfully sweet, but this is also a coming-of-age story told through Dimple and Rishi's evolving friendship during a summer coding program that leads each to new understandings of themselves and their families. Along the way there is laughter, tears, and the Aberzombies (which is the single most perfect nickname ever invented).
The author has brought the reader a refreshing take on a summer romance, both by flipping the usual narrative of girl looking for boyfriend/marriage plus boy shying from commitment, and by putting it firmly in the world of Indian immigrants and the inherent conflict of American ideals and Indian tradition. Even the side plots have refreshing elements of diversity that flow naturally through the story.
My ebook also contained the short story As Kismet Would Have It which tells the next chapter for Dimple and Rishi as well as introduces the girl at the center of Menon's next novel set in the same world.