![]() "Although those are powerful, important stories, I knew I wasn't the right one to tell them. “It wasn't a story about race or poverty," Menon says. ![]() The book is a collaboration between Menon and her Simon Pulse editor Jennifer Ung, who reached out to the author with the idea for the story. Brown teens need to see themselves falling in love, making mistakes, dabbling in art, and being happy." It's isolating, and it feels like no one really sees you. "There's a danger in that single story because it flattens your perspective of what you can achieve in life. "Our stories are usually about us being terrorists or rapists or about us overcoming the odds to rise above the slums and become doctors," Menon tells Bustle. ![]() "Brown teens need to see themselves falling in love, making mistakes, dabbling in art, and being happy." Menon is a bright new talent, and she delivers a debut that’s deliciously quirky, funny and nerdy - and a contemporary YA summer romance starring two Indian kids, a story we see very rarely in mainstream media. The twist? Only one of them knows that it’s an arranged match set up by their traditional Indian parents. The rom-com of the summer? My bet is on debut author Sandhya Menon’s young adult tech-geek love story When Dimple Met Rishi,a swoon-worthy romance about two teens who meet and fall for each other at an app camp (yep, those exist!). ![]()
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