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About the author
Mitali Perkins was born in Kolkata. Her family soon left India, living in Ghana, Cameroon, England and Mexico before emigrating to the United States. They eventually settled in California. Mitali studied political science at Stanford University and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is married to the Reverend Robert K. Perkins II and has twin sons. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Summary
Jasmine "Jazz" Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother's plan - Mrs Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn't Jazz's idea of a great summer holiday. She wants no part of her mother's do-gooder intentions. The problem is that Jazz is in love. She's leaving behind the business she started with her best friend, Steve, and leaving him is very hard, even though he doesn't even know how she feels. Only when Jazz reluctantly befriends Danita, a girl who cooks for her family, and who is facing a tough dilemma, does Jazz begin to see how she can make a difference - to her own family, to Danita, to the children at the orphanage, even to Steve. As India claims Jazz, the monsoon works its madness and its magic.
