Rishi is also going to this same summer camp. Having just graduated from high school, Dimple begs to attend a summer-long coding camp which she believes will give her an edge before starting computer programming at Stanford in the Fall.

There is so much to love: Exploration of Indian-American values and culture, STEM-focused independent female, hopeless romantic boy completely down with an arranged marriage, and the setting is a coding camp! There are some wonderful aspects of this novel, yet When Dimple Met Rishi did not quite meet the mark for me.ĭimple and Rishi are first generation Indian-Americans with parents who are very attached to their cultural history. When Dimple Met Rishi has been on my To Read list practically since Simon Pulse announced it was going to be published. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways. The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?ĭimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him-wherein he’ll have to woo her-he’s totally on board.

If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh.

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