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In this penetrating coming-of-age debut from London-based Lalwani, 14-year-old Rumika Vasi struggles to fulfill her mathematical gifts and her family's demands on them, while also finding friendship and romance. Rumi, labeled gifted in kindergarten, becomes subject to the grim home teaching of her father, Mahesh, a professor of mathematics at the University of Swansea in Wales. The goal: to be accepted to Oxford by age 14. Shreene, Rumi's mother, resentfully accepts the household dominance of Rumi's studies while worrying about how to raise her to be a proper young Indian woman. Rumi longs to be in India, where lots of girls are good at math and where she feels at home among her extended family. The pull of romance is also soon part of Rumi's equation. Lalwani does a nice job with the myriad cultural contradictions: a bewildered Shreene, for example, resorts to archaic scripts from her childhood, leading her to tell Rumi that [o]nly white people have sex and that Indian babies come from prayer. Well done, too, is Rumi's warm relationship with India. Lalwani doesn't have characterization fully down, but the pain and confusion she presents are deeply felt. (Sept.)
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You don't see much failure in coming-of-age stories. But math prodigy Rumi Vasi is here to change that. Born in Wales after her parents emigrated from India, Rumi studies numbers constantly, and under her loving mathematician father's guidance, she aces the high-school final exams at 14 and makes it to Oxford University. But what then? In her compelling debut novel, British author Lalwani subverts the standard immigrant-identity clichés with surprises that bring everything tumbling down. Nothing is simple: Rumi's mother longs for the old Hindi ways, even as she remembers her fury when her father would not let her sit the premed exams—who would marry her? In a hilarious scene, she refuses to answer Rumi's questions about how babies are born: Through prayer. . . . Only white people have sex. Most compelling is the truth of Rumi's inner life: denied a childhood, the lonely math nerd, always obsessed with numbers, is totally unprepared for her sexual awakening and for her academic collapse. Rochman, Hazel
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