all we are is hopeless

Like many people, Aditi vows she will never raise her children the way her parents raised her. The eldest daughter of a strict South Asian family, the 25-year-old magazine reporter has ambitions larger than the four walls of a foreign home her parents have decided she will marry into. So, on the eve of her university graduation, she runs away-far, far away from her duties as a daughter, a sister, and as an immigrant child forced to succumb to her parents' every whim.

Now, starting afresh in a new town, with a new job at an up-and-coming magazine, Aditi is forced to encounter a past she believed she would never see again: in the form of an ex-boyfriend, whom she pushed away to please her parents and their warped idea of a respectable life.

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Dedicated to all my Asian girls. No one knows what it means to both love & hate your culture at the same time.