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'Pride, Prejudice, And Other Flavors' Is More Than Just Reheated Austen

Sonali Dev's new novel — about an Indian American surgeon who falls for a multiracial British chef — has elements of Austen's classic, but it's also a sensitive examination of class and privilege.
Source: William Morrow

Bollywood meets Jane Austenin San Francisco! — in Sonali Dev's Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors. Neurosurgeon Trisha Raje's family is Indian American royalty: Not only is her father is an actual prince in India, but her mother is a former Bollywood star and her brother's running for governor of California.

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