My Sister’s Big Fat Indian Wedding

By: Sajni Patel

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

A fresh, witty romantic-comedy romp set against the backdrop of a high-profile music competition and a riotous Indian wedding

Zurika Damani is a naturally gifted violinist with a particular love for hip-hop beats. But as she is part of a big Indian family, everyone has expectations, and those certainly don’t include hip-hop violin. After being rejected by the Juilliard School, Zuri’s last hope is a contest judged by a panel of top-tier college scouts. The only problem? This coveted competition happens to take place during Zuri’s sister’s extravagant wedding week. And Zuri has already been warned, repeatedly, that she is not to miss a single moment.

In the midst of the chaos, Zuri’s mom is in matchmaking mode with the groom’s South African cousin Naveen—who just happens to be a cocky vocalist set on stealing Zuri’s spotlight at the scouting competition. Luckily, Zuri has a crew of loud and loyal female cousins cheering her on.

Now, all she has to do is to wow the judges for a top spot, evade getting caught by her parents, resist Naveen’s charms, and, oh yeah—not mess up her sister’s big fat Indian wedding. What could possibly go wrong?

©2022 Sajni Patel. Published in 2022 by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS, New York (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Best book ever!

This book definitely swept me off my feet! As a fellow Gujarati it just kept getting more and more interesting. I could not set the book down.

🥰🥰🥰

This was just so unbelievably adorable and funny. What else can I say about it?

The performance was amazing!

I liked learning more about what goes on at an Indian wedding and how much family matters. I fell in love with the characters and could vividly see everything that was going on. I’m curious to see where our two main characters go from here.♥️

I want more!

Oh my gosh! There is so much potential here for more books about the Damai girls! This is a great and easy read/listen. This left me wanting the second book to follow up on Zurika at school and does a certain Mr. hottie pants come back and sweep her off her feet again?! We need more!

Enjoyable

Loved the flow of the story, characters ,setting , freshness and cultural aspect . Enjoyed the flawless narration.

very good!

Zurika's story was so good. She wanted to go to music school and needed to do a competition for a chance to make that dream happen. Too bad the competition was right in the middle of her sister's wedding festivities.
Naveen was a member of the groom's family. He was someone her mother and aunties were talking about setting her up with. He was also her competition.
This was such a cute story. Just enough romance but more about her following her dreams. I enjoyed this book a lot.

An amazing story with a twist.

Soneela Nankani is becoming one of my favorite audiobook narrators. My #1 issue with this book is I will never be able to see the main characters perform. Their talent was so well written, it was fun to imagine. The story felt a little cliche at times, but then I would remember it was being written through a whole new perspective and culture. Which I absolutely loved. If you like teen romcoms you’ll love this.

So enjoyable!

Loved every minute and didn’t want it to end. Not just for young adults. Wonderful author and truly great narrator.

Really fun story for couples to listen to

My wife and I listened to this on a road trip and really enjoyed it, parts funny, parts inspiring and some things just life and stress but all good!

My eyes are stuck from all the eye rolling

It’s an enemies to lovers plot written VERY YA. The love interest is supposed to be a senior in high school but he behaves like he is 36. The narrator is overly dramatic.

I love Indian weddings and the culture and that was the only reason I finished. I’ve read other things by this author that were much better but this book, which I was so excited to read, fell flat for me. I might take a break after this.