The inspiration for the Netflix original series
Mismatched
!
A
New York Times
bestseller
Time
Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
An NPR Best Book of 2017
BuzzFeed
Best YA Book of 2017
Kirkus Reviews
Best Teen Book of 2017
School Library Journal
Best Young Adult Book of 2017
Bustle
Best YA Novel of 2017
PopSugar
Best Young Adult Novel of 2017
Book Riot
Best Book of 2017
Paste Magazine
“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
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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.