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Sonali Dev’s first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success, Sonali spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture and written communication, migrating across the globe, and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. With the advent of her first gray hair her mad love for telling stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as supermom, domestic goddess, and world traveler.

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I adored Recipe for Persuasion! With all the hints at Yash's relationship throughout the book (and in P&P&OF as well), are you thinking of expanding his story in a sequel? Also, again, thank you so much for writing such a wonderful retelling of Persuasion, the best and most overlooked Austen book ♥

Sonali Dev Thanks, Kylee!! I'm so thrilled that you adored (I love that word) Recipe for Persuasion. Yay! And yes, I always envisioned this series as four books,…moreThanks, Kylee!! I'm so thrilled that you adored (I love that word) Recipe for Persuasion. Yay! And yes, I always envisioned this series as four books, each one paying homage to one of my four favorite Jane Austen novels. The next is, indeed, Yash's story, and it's inspired by Sense and Sensibility. Thanks so much for your question.
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Big fan here! I just finished reading A Change of Heart and I wondered: was it difficult for you to write Ria? In The Bollywood Bride, we got to experience her internal dialogue as she wrestled with her life, which made her seem more relatable. However, the way Jess saw her is how she actually would seem: cold and somewhat spoiled. It was quite jarring, especially after reading the two stories one after the other!

Sonali Dev Hi! That's an amazingly astute observation. I am very fascinated by the disconnect between our inner selves and our outer selves, our public selves an…moreHi! That's an amazingly astute observation. I am very fascinated by the disconnect between our inner selves and our outer selves, our public selves and our private selves. Who we are and what people see us as is such a combination of factors (their perspectives and prejudices, plus our own). Ria's entire story was about reconciling those two parts. So to answer your question she was not at all hard for me to write in terms of who she was, but she was hard to make 'likeable' because readers (like people we meet in life) judge us by our actions rather than our thoughts. And her actions (or the lack there of) at the beginning come from a place of fear.
As for how Jess sees her, Jess comes with her own prejudices that come from her own darker, less fortunate experiences and circumstances. It's not so much that Ria is cold and spoiled, but that she's protective of Nikhil. Jess has to grow past some of her darkness to see past Ria's darkness.
Basically I love both women and it was a joy to explore this mess of perception with them. (less)

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	The Vibrant Years 3.97 avg rating — 19,838 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 19,395 ratings — published 2019 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 12,070 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bollywood Affair (Bollywood, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 8,581 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incense and Sensibility (The Rajes, #3) 3.74 avg rating — 8,064 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emma Project (The Rajes, #4) 3.71 avg rating — 4,752 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wedding Setup: A Short Story 3.79 avg rating — 3,607 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bollywood Bride (Bollywood, #2) 3.58 avg rating — 3,792 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Change of Heart (Bollywood, #3) 3.53 avg rating — 1,748 ratings — published 2016 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lies and Other Love Languages 3.95 avg rating — 1,479 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Courage wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”
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“Ma’s pet peeve was how the Western world misunderstood the theory of karma. “I mean it’s the Bhagavad Gita they’re bastardizing. What is all this ‘karma’s a bitch’ nonsense!” Ma loved to say. The entire “what goes around comes around” thing was a backward view of karma. Karma was simply Sanskrit for action, and the theory was that your actions are the only thing under your control, as opposed to the fruits of your actions, which are not. And since actions always bear fruit, you were better off focusing your energy on your own actions, rather than worrying about the results you wanted them to produce.”
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“The fact that you have the things you have isn’t wrong. Not understanding what you have is.”
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“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
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