7/23/2023 0 Comments Book of lust vnBut they still grated.įor example, Rishi. Granted, I am 100% sure that I would notice these and judge these more as an Indian than probably other people would. Putting aside my general annoyance with young adult romance (and this book had many of those same tropes and bothers), there were things that just were too much for me. I think that is a really great lesson.īut there were also many things in this book that bothered me. Rishi in particular is very well-versed in his heritage and has no embarrassment at all about fully embracing it. I also appreciate that the author, Sandhya Menon, made cultural pride and knowledge such a positive thing in this book. It's a small detail, but many Indian people live through it, and I loved that it somehow made its way into this book. But so many people from Andhra go to Bangalore that the version of Telugu they all speak is completely different than the Telugu spoken in Andhra. But their families are both originally from Andhra, which is Telugu-speaking. My parents grew up in Bangalore, which is a Kannada-speaking city. And his parents went to Mumbai from elsewhere, as did many other people, and so the Hindi they speak is not often understood outside of Mumbai. One of my favorite parts, a tiny detail, was when Rishi explained to Dimple's friend that he speaks Hindi, but that he speaks a version of Hindi that is from Mumbai, where locals speak Marathi. Much about this book rings true, as someone who grew up here to Indian parents. And that Rishi loves art but feels like he needs to go to engineering school to make his parents happy. I also appreciate that in this book, it's Dimple who is ambitious and driven and totally into being a techie, with big dreams on how to make it happen. It is like the YA romance version of Hasan Minhaj's Netflix special. There's an Indian girl on the cover, there are Hindi words in the text, there are Indian narrators on the audiobook (who pronounce all the names and words correctly!!!). I would never want to return to the period of my life when I was an overly-dramatic teenager, and it is hard for me to read books centered on characters at that age without rolling my eyes multiple times.īut I also grew up Indian-American, and I love that this book exists. In general, I veer away from young adult romance because I find it too angsty and dramatic. But then they get to know each other, and Dimple realizes that he's not all bad. They meet, Rishi basically proposes, and Dimple freaks out. Dimple has no idea she's at Insomnia-con to develop an app to help people deal with diabetes. Rishi is totally on-board with this, and he goes to Insomnia-con just to meet Dimple and propose (with his grandmother's ring, no less). Rishi and Dimple's parents are friends and want their children to meet and get married. When Dimple Met Rishi is about two Indian-American kids who go to an app development summer camp the summer between high school and college. Around the same time, people started telling me about the book When Dimple Met Rishi, and I thought I would read the book and then maybe give it to my sister to read and imagine a fun future for her child. A month ago, I became an aunt to an adorable and winsome boy named Rishi.
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