Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words

 

Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words by Annika Sharma (2021) 374 pages

Kiran is a 28-year-old biomedical engineer based in New York City and is supporting her parents, who live in India. She's a dutiful daughter, knowing how important it is to take care of them, especially since they had sent away her older sister after she married a lower-caste Indian 20 years ago. Kiran's trying to find a suitable Indian spouse, but like her tightly-knit group of four friends from college, she has had no luck.

Meanwhile, Nash has just moved to New York City from Tennessee. He's had a tough childhood, with his drug-using mother and absentee father. With the support of his aunt and his best friend's family, he's now a psychologist, ready to start working in a hospital in New York.

When Kiran and Nash meet, it's an instant friendship. But can the relationship go anywhere further with Kiran's wish to please her parents and with Nash's reticence to trusting in a relationship? The twists and turns kept this situation from being too formulaic of a love story. Just enough to give a pleasant day's reading.

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