Meena Kapoor knows what life has in store for her. Sheâs in her senior year at Stanford where sheâll graduate summa cum laude, and then she'll begin her interviewsâŚher marriage interviews. Meena is Indian, and sheâs never questioned that sheâll have an arranged marriage like all the generations before her. Not until she meets gorgeous math major Ethan Callahan. Ethanâs sense of humor and free spirit stir feelings in Meena she didnât know were possible outside of Bollywood movies. It doesnât hurt that heâs charming and has the uncanny ability to make math sound like poetry, but Meena knows their equation makes no sense in the real world.
Ethan finds himself intrigued by the mysterious, beautiful girl, whose big, brown eyes reflect great pain. His goals are small at firstâto make her smile and then to laugh. But he soon wants more, and though Meena is adamant they have no future, he convinces her to share the present. Ethan believes every problem has a solution, but with cultural expectations and family duty among the variables, they will struggle to solve the ultimate equation to find happiness.