Meena Kapoor knows what life has in store for her. Sheās in her senior year at Stanford where sheāll graduate summa cum laude, and then she'll begin her interviewsā¦her marriage interviews. Meena is Indian, and sheās never questioned that sheāll have an arranged marriage like all the generations before her. Not until she meets gorgeous math major Ethan Callahan. Ethanās sense of humor and free spirit stir feelings in Meena she didnāt know were possible outside of Bollywood movies. It doesnāt hurt that heās 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 firstāto 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.