Simran seems to have everything lined up for a fantastic life: she's living in New York, she's finishing up her Master's in psychology, and her fiance is a medical resident with a promising future. But as planning for a large Indian wedding moves along, the cracks in her life begin to appear. Simultaneously, her mother, Nandini, is similarly experiencing some strain from her in-laws, as well as Simran's future mother-in-law. It doesn't help that mother and daughter can't seem to talk, or get a hold of Nandini's mom back in India. Can the women hold it together to see this wedding through?
Dave's debut novel, this book shows the pressures of not only being a woman, but being an Indian-American woman, tasked with serving traditional in-laws in a society that keeps pressuring women to "lean in." It's illuminating and fascinating (I'm *so glad* my wedding preparations were not like this!), and I look forward to what Dave writes in the future.
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