Review by Booklist Review
Mira is engaged to a man she loves, a man her Indian parents approve of, a handsome and kind doctor whose parents are also Indian. She's happy . . . she thinks. But when her fiancé can't make their prewedding trip to New York City, he encourages Mira to go alone so that she can reconnect with her twin brother, to whom their parents haven't spoken since he came out to them. Once in New York, Mira finds a beautiful gold ring abandoned on the street and turns to social media to try to locate its owner. In the search, Mira finds herself and begins to suspect that the gruff journalist who helps her may be a better fit for that new self. Interspersed is the love story of the ring owners, two women living in rural India decades ago, kept apart by prejudice. Dev's latest (after Lies and Other Love Languages, 2023) is an exciting romp through past and present cultural identities and familial expectations, exploring how wanting the best for our family members can be misguided and harmful if we don't understand them.
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