Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel
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A01=Arushi Avachat
aapi
achieving your goals
Author_Arushi Avachat
beloved author
black sheep
Californian author
Category=YFM
Category=YNM
Category=YXN
childhood crush
college
coming home
coming of age
Desi
Desi characters
Desi community
Desi protagonist
Desi representation
Desi woman author
enemies to lovers
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_personal-social-topics
eq_teenage-young-adult
falling in love
family dynamics
female author
female Desi protagonist
female protagonist
first generation
following your dreams
forced proximity
forthcoming
friendship
gen Z
gen Z author
immigrant
immigrant families
Indian American representation
Indian protagonist
intergenerational
joyful
learning to drive
mother and daughter relationship
opposites attract
pacific northwest
pnw
Reinvention
relatable
rom-com
romantic comedy
seattle
second chances
siblings
South Asian American author
South Asian author
South Asian female author
south asian protagonist
South Asian representation
Summer Bucket list
teen romance
transferring colleges
UK author
university
well connected author
YA
YA rom com
Product details
- ISBN 9781250895905
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 137 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Wednesday Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nineteen-year-old Rani Deshpande is on a mission to reinvent herself the summer before transferring to her new university. After a challenging freshman year, Rani can’t help but feel like she’s playing catch up. To that end, she’s crafted a packed summer to get back on track: a dream internship, adventures with her hometown best friend, and regular driving lessons so that she can finally lose her passenger princess reputation - even if it means learning from her aggravating family friend (and childhood crush), Kush Khanna.
Kush and Rani grew up together, but they couldn’t be less alike. Within their close-knit Desi community - a Jane Austen style cast of ridiculous, meddlesome families - Kush is the beloved model son; Rani is more the black sheep. Kush is pre-med; Rani plans to teach elementary school. Kush is cool and collected, bordering on reticent; Rani couldn’t keep her mouth shut if her life depended on it. So when their mothers first force the pair to drive together, the arrangement feels like a recipe for disaster. As the lessons progress, however, Rani discovers there’s more to the boy she’s known her whole life than meets the eye.
In Arushi Avachat's Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel, Rani must learn to course-correct, no matter how bumpy or windy the road – and even if it includes a detour right into love.
