In Zara Raheem’ s fresh, funny, smart debut, a young, Muslim American woman strikes a deal with her parents: she’ ll find her future husband in three months, or else they’ ll arrange her marriage for her!
To Leila Abid’ s traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around.
Yet after twenty-six years of singledom, and still no sign of “ Mr. Perfect, ” even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters worse, her parents are panicking, the neighbors are talking, and she’ s wondering if her expectations are just too high.
Tasked with an impossible mission of satisfying her parents, while also fulfilling her own Western ideals of love, Leila decides it’ s finally time to stop dreaming and start searching. But after a series of speed dates, blind dates, online dates, and even ambush dates, the sparks just don’ t fly. Now, with the marriage clock ticking, and a three-month deadline looming on the horizon, Leila must face the consequences of what might happen if she doesn’ t find “ the one” . . .
