Sandhya Menon is an

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author based in

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, United States. She is the author of

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bestseller ''

When Dimple Met Rishi ''When Dimple Met Rishi'' is a 2017 American young adult romance novel by Sandhya Menon. It tells the story of 18-year-old Indian American Dimple Shah who meets a boy named Rishi Patel at a web developing camp in San Francisco and the two fall i ...

'' and ''From Twinkle, with Love''.

Early life

Menon grew up in

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and is a die-hard fan of

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films. She moved to the US from

when she was fifteen years old. She had a hard-time growing up in two different cultures and says that she always wanted to be a writer, but her family pressured her to study

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Career

Menon writes

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fiction for

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and rom-coms, often with Indian-American protagonists. Her first book ''

'' was published in 2017. It's a

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about two Indian-American teenagers, Dimple and Rishi, whose parents are trying to arrange their marriage. The book was published by

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and was a

bestseller. The book was adapted into the

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series ''

Mismatched ''Mismatched'' is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic drama web series on Netflix, based on Sandhya Menon's 2017 novel ''When Dimple Met Rishi''. It was adapted by Gazal Dhaliwal and directed by Akarsh Khurana and Nipun Dharmadhi ...

'' in 2020. Menon's next book, ''From Twinkle, with Love,'' about a teenage Indian-American aspiring filmmaker who collaborates on a documentary with her crush's brother, was published by

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in May 2018. A companion to her debut, called ''There's Something About Sweetie'', about two Indian-American teens and an arranged marriage matched by their parents, was published in 2019. The first book in her first series, ''Of Curses and Kisses'', centering on a boarding school for royals and a retelling of

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, will be published by Simon Pulse in 2020. Her rom-com debut, ''Make-Up Break Up'', about an Indian-American entrepreneur and her matchmaking business, will be published by St. Martin's Press in 2021.

Personal life

Menon now lives in

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, Colorado, with her husband and two children, a son and a daughter.

Bibliography

*''

'' (2017) *''From Twinkle, with Love'' (2018) *''There's Something About Sweetie'' (2019) *''As Kismet Would Have It'' (2019) *''Love at First Fight'' (2020) *''10 Things I Hate About Pinky'' (2020) *''Of Curses and Kisses'' (2020) *''Make Up Break Up'' (2021)

References

External links

Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Menon, Sandhya Living people 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian writers 21st-century American women writers Indian emigrants to the United States American young adult novelists Year of birth missing (living people)