When Dimple Met Rishi: The inspiration for the Netflix original series Mismatched! by Sandhya Menon

The arranged marriage YA romcom you didn't know you wanted or needed...

Meet Dimple.

Her main aim in life is to escape her traditional parents, get to university and begin her plan for tech world domination.

Meet Rishi.

He's rich, good-looking and a hopeless romantic. His parents think Dimple is the perfect match for him, but she's got other plans...

Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works even harder to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.

As joyfully refreshing as Rainbow Rowell, Jenny Han and Nicola Yoon, When Dimple Met Rishi is a frothy, funny contemporary romance told from the dual perspectives of two Indian American protagonists. While Dimple is fighting her family traditions, Rishi couldn't be happier to follow in the footsteps of his parents - could sparks fly between this odd couple, or is this matchmaking attempt doomed to fail?

Review

A New York Times bestseller

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

An NPR Best Book of 2017

A BuzzFeed Best YA Book of 2017

A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2017

A School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book of 2017

A Bustle Best YA Novel of 2017

A PopSugar Best Young Adult Novel of 2017

A Book Riot Best Book of 2017

A Paste Magazine Best Young Adult Novel of 2017

Heart-warming, empathetic, and often hilarious, a delightful read, Kirkus Reviews (starred)

The arranged marriage YA rom-com we've been waiting for, Bustle

Menon wrote an utterly delightful novel and broke my heart by writing an ending because I want nothing more than to keep reading about Dimple and Rishi forever . . . I'm looking forward to it being a huge hit of 2017., Book Riot

Adorable, BuzzFeed

UK Paperback Product details

Paperback: 384 pages

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (1 Jun. 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1473667402

ISBN-13: 978-1473667402

Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 2.4 x 20.2 cm

US Paperback Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon Pulse; Export edition (July 13, 2017)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 380 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1534404708

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1534404700

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

Customer reviews: 4.2 out of 5 stars   94 customer reviews

About the Author

Sandhya Menon was born and raised in India on a steady diet of Bollywood movies and street food, and blames this upbringing for her obsession with happily-ever-afters, bad dance moves, and pani puri. Now she lives in Colorado, where she's on a mission to (gently) coerce her family to watch all 3,220 Bollywood movies she claims as her favourite. Visit her online at sandhyamenon.com.