Title:
Variables of Love
Author: MK
Schiller
Genre: NA Multicultural Novel
Hosted by: Lady Amber's
Tours
Blurb:
Meena Kapoor knows what life has in store for her. She’s in
her senior year at Stanford where she’ll graduate summa cum laude, and then
she'll begin her interviews…her marriage interviews. Meena is Indian, and she’s
never questioned that she’ll have an arranged marriage like all the generations
before her. Not until she meets gorgeous math major Ethan Callahan. Ethan’s
sense of humor and free spirit stir feelings in Meena she didn’t know were
possible outside of Bollywood movies. It doesn’t hurt that he’s charming and
has the uncanny ability to make math sound like poetry, but Meena knows their equation
makes no sense in the real world.
Ethan finds himself intrigued by the mysterious, beautiful
girl, whose big, brown eyes reflect great pain. His goals are small at first—to
make her smile and then to laugh. But he soon wants more, and though Meena is
adamant they have no future, he convinces her to share the present. Ethan
believes every problem has a solution, but with cultural expectations and
family duty among the variables, they will struggle to solve the ultimate
equation to find happiness.
I am a hopeless romantic in a hopelessly pragmatic world.
I have a full time life and two busy teenagers, but in the dark of night, I sit
by the warm glow of my computer monitor, reading or writing, usually with some
tasty Italian…the food that is!
I started imagining stories in my head at a very young
age. In fact, I got so good at it that friends asked me to create plots
featuring them as the heroine and the object of their affection as the hero.
You've heard of fan fiction... this was friend fiction.
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Ever After in every endeavor.
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“It is kind
of cool…the mating for life thing. There are so few species that mate for
life.”
I turned and
stared at him, feeling my heart flutter by his very close presence. His hand
twitched a bit, like it wanted to grab mine. Was he feeling the same charge of
electricity I was? I wanted to be honest with him. After I told him, he would
probably rather hang out with a swan.
“That’s why
I love them. They are just like me.”
He didn’t
seem frazzled by what I’d said. He was quiet, soaking in my words. Rachael told
me statements like this were the fastest way to get a guy to leave you alone,
but Ethan didn’t even seem surprised. “You mate for life,
Meena?”
“My people
do”
“Economists?”
he asked with an amused grin.
“Very
funny.”
“Are you
saying there are no Indian divorces?” His question sounded genuine.
“There are
exceptions to every rule, but we do have the lowest divorce rate in the
world.”
“Why do you
think that is?”
“It’s
culturally discouraged.”
He nodded.
“Maybe, it should be here too. But is that really the only reason? It makes it
sound like it’s very difficult to get yourself out of a bad
situation.”
“It’s
difficult, but usually not impossible. That’s not the only reason. I think the
marriages, in general, are stronger and more stable.”
“What makes
them stronger? Religion? Culture?” I was quiet for a moment, contemplating my
response. “Come on, the answer to the Western woes of wedlock could be solved
by this very conversation. Surely, you have a
theory.”
“Two
words—arranged marriage.”
His eyebrows
shot up. I had finally surprised him, but he didn’t hesitate with his next
question. “People still do that?”
“It’s not as
common as it was, but it’s not uncommon either. Most Hindu marriages are the
result of an arrangement.”
“I don’t
know anyone who would want to get married like
that.”
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