Review: Sari, Not Sari

Sari, Not Sari by Sonya Singh
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Review to come later today-I just woke up and haven't even finished one cup of coffee!!! So I couldn't possibly write a coherent review yet!

Now that I have fortified myself with enough coffee to sink a battleship, I can safely say that this was a very cute romance/finding yourself novel. I, too, was brought up like Manny was, and that was to embrace being American with my Italian/Hungarian sides being secondary. I knew about the foods but very little about the traditions of either family. So I can easily see myself jumping at the chance that Manny did.

Sammy was a tad more difficult to get to know, but eventually, he grew on me, and so did his whole family. I actually wish this book had spent less time on discussing Manny's company (it was the entire first quarter of the book---and let me tell you, I was amazed to find out such companies exist! I am soooo in the dark ages!) and more time on Manny learning about her heritage.

All in all, a quick, fun, and flirty novel, perfect for the beach.

*ARC supplied by Simon and Schuster, NetGalley, and the author. My thanks

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SYNOPSIS:"This delightful debut rom-com follows the adventures of a woman trying to connect with her South Asian roots and introduces readers to a memorable cast of characters in a veritable feast of food, family traditions, and fun.

Manny Dogra is the beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company that helps people manage their relationship breakups. As preoccupied as she is with her business, she’s also planning her wedding to handsome architect Adam Jamieson while dealing with the loss of her beloved parents.

For reasons Manny has never understood, her mother and father, who were both born in India, always wanted her to become an “All-American” girl. So that’s what she did. She knows next to nothing about her South Asian heritage, and that’s never been a problem—until her parents are no longer around, and an image of Manny that’s been Photoshopped to make her skin look more white appears on a major magazine cover. Suddenly, the woman who built an empire encouraging people to be true to themselves is having her own identity crisis.

But when an irritating client named Sammy Patel approaches Manny with an odd breakup request, the perfect solution presents itself: If they both agree to certain terms, he’ll give her a crash course in being “Indian” at his brother’s wedding.

What follows is days of dancing and dal, masala and mehndi as Manny meets the lovable, if endlessly interfering, aunties and uncles of the Patel family, and, along the way, discovers much more than she could ever have anticipated."