There's Something About Mira: A Novel by Sonali DevMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Mira Salvi is a medical professional engaged to be married to a surgeon. Her parents are very strict, Indian nationals who came to the USA. Because of an incident in her past, Mira has spent her entire adulthood bending over backwards to please her parents/do everything they tell her to do, even after they ostracise her twin brother when they discover he is gay.
Mira and her fiancé were due to spend an engagement moon (never heard of the idea before) in New York but yet again he is too busy with work and she decides to go alone - something that would normally be way outside of her comfort zone. While in New York, Mira falls over and finds an unusual ring on the street, threaded on a chain. Something about the ring speaks to Mira and she is determined to find its owner, so she does what every young person these days would do - she uploads a video to social media. Her brother's fiancé's family run a chain of high end jewellery stores and he quickly identifies that the ring is Indian in origin, made of the highest quality gold and was one of an interlinking pair.
A journalist, Krish Hale, contacts Mira through a vague connection to her brother's fiancé who he met at a wedding. Krish offers to help Mira find the ring's owner if she lets him write a story about their search. Mira finds Krish obnoxious at first, and puzzling because despite his name and his colouring he doesn't appear to know anything about being Indian.
Their search takes them across New York and eventually to India where they discover the sad secret behind the interlinking rings.
I just loved this, TBH I don't think anything was a great surprise, Mira's secret, Krish's secret, the story behind the rings, but it was all done very well and without anyone drastically changing personality.
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.
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