Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

Trisha and DJ get off to a rough start when he overhears her referring to him as the hired help and looks down on his career as a chef. He is in desperate need of money, having given up his rising star chef life to move to be by Emma’s side and pay her mounting medical bills. Something the artist can’t live with and chooses not to have the surgery.ĭJ is Emma’s brother, and a chef, catering several events for the wealthy Raje family. Trisha is sure that she can operate and save Emma’s life but Emma will lose her sight. One of her patients is Emma, an artist with a brain tumor. Trisha Raje as an acclaimed neurosurgeon, descended from Indian royalty, at the top of her game, having just developed technology that can cut out a brain tumor without destroying the surrounding delicate tissue or killing the patient. I have seen many of the movies and read several re-tellings and as far as I can tell – Dev hit all the basics with this tale while making it her own. Review: Confession – I have not read P&P.

But before a future can be savored there’s a past to be reckoned with.Ī family trying to build home in a new land.Ī man who has never felt at home anywhere.Īnd a choice to be made between the two.

And then he discovers that she’s the only surgeon who can save his sister’s life.Īs the two clash, their assumptions crumble like the spun sugar on one of DJ’s stunning desserts. He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance.

Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes. But now she has a chance to redeem herself. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. Never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations.But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep.ĭr. Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco.

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev