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Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel

May 19

Book cover of Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel. There are two people at the front end of a car. The license plate says A Novel. The young man on the left is wearing a black traditional Desi suit with a dark gray and black scarf. He has short wavy dark hair and is looking to the young woman to his right. She is wearing a traditional Desi long dress that is light orange with gold trims and a darker orange scarf with gold trim. She also has gold jewelry and is holding a car key in from her hand and her arms are crossed though she is smiling. In the background is a pink and orange sky and a city skyline above the trees.Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel by Arushi Avachat
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Nineteen-year-old Rani Deshpande is on a mission to reinvent herself the summer before transferring to her new university. After a challenging freshman year, Rani can’t help but feel like she’s playing catch up. To that end, she’s crafted a packed summer to get back on track: a dream internship, adventures with her hometown best friend, and regular driving lessons so that she can finally lose her passenger princess reputation – even if it means learning from her aggravating family friend (and childhood crush), Kush Khanna.

Kush and Rani grew up together, but they couldn’t be less alike. Within their close-knit Desi community – a Jane Austen style cast of ridiculous, meddlesome families – Kush is the beloved model son; Rani is more the black sheep. Kush is pre-med; Rani plans to teach elementary school. Kush is cool and collected, bordering on reticent; Rani couldn’t keep her mouth shut if her life depended on it. So when their mothers first force the pair to drive together, the arrangement feels like a recipe for disaster. As the lessons progress, however, Rani discovers there’s more to the boy she’s known her whole life than meets the eye.

In Arushi Avachat’s Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel, Rani must learn to course-correct, no matter how bumpy or windy the road – and even if it includes a detour right into love.

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