Then Dimple and Rishi get paired together to work on app development, and she discovers he’s nothing like she expected. She feels like they don’t take her passions seriously and don’t understand the choices she wants to make in life. And Dimple is furious when she discovers the reason her parents agreed to let her go to Insomnia Con. The two main characters do not drink.Dimple and Rishi have a chance meeting right away, and it doesn’t go well.
THEMES: culture clash, first love, following your dreams, independence from parents, generation gap Bonus points for the relatively clean content. I highly recommend this for all high school libraries. Though Dimple has graduated high school and is away from home for the summer, Dimple still talks to her parents on the phone regularly.
Speaking of the parents…how awesome are they? I love Dimple’s mother’s protectiveness and desire to preserve Indian culture and values within her daughter.ĭimple’s father is great as a calming force bringing balance to the the two strong women in his life.Īnd I always love a YA contemporary with TWO parents actively involved in their teen daughter’s life. I especially loved the clash between immigrant parents and their Westernized children, who are growing up with values very different from their parents. There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, and Rishi’s traditional values are a great complement to Dimple’s independence. I don’t have a whole lot to say about this one except that it’s super-cute, and I think my students will love it. She’s excited about newfound freedom and no longer hearing about how “domestic” a young Indian woman should be.īut Dimple gets the surprise of her life when, on her first day of Insomnia Con, a boy named Rishi proposes to her, saying he and Dimple were arranged to be married. If Dimple’s app is selected, Jenny Lindt will sponsor the development and marketing of the app.ĭimple is especially excited to escape her Indian-immigrant parents for a little while before she goes away to Stanford in the fall. College-bound Dimple Shah is embarking on the opportunity of a lifetime: Insomnia Con, a summer program for pre-university students to develop an app and present it to Jenny Lindt, a famous software developer.
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