But is suitability enough to overcome Maya's curiosity about and attraction to Phil? And when they encourage her to date a suitable (and handsome) young man named Kareem, she finds herself enjoying their time together. Maya loves and admires her parents, who made their own love match in India and started a successful dental practice in the United States. But how can Maya tell her parents that she's in love with a white boy when they, both immigrants from India, are devoting themselves to matching her with a nice young Indian Muslim boy? Maya is also harboring a not-so-secret infatuation with her classmate Phil, who may be available (and interested?) following a breakup with his longtime girlfriend.
But she is terrified of telling her parents, who would prefer her to attend the University of Chicago or Northwestern, schools where they can keep close tabs on her from their suburban Chicago home. The high school senior and aspiring documentary filmmaker longs to attend the film program at NYU and has been accepted to the highly competitive program. Seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz has a lot of secrets.
In this unforgettable debut novel, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape.
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