A review by jwinchell
How to Find What You're Not Looking for by Veera Hiranandani

4.0

By the author of the incredible Night Diary, this is the story of a Jewish girl growing up in Connecticut. Her sister falls in love with an Indian recent immigrant, and after their parents express their disapproval, she moves to NYC to marry him and becomes pregnant. Ariel is struggling to understand her parents, who work hard at the family bakery, but she really misses her sister. It’s 1968, so a lot is happening in the world, and Ariel is grappling with it. It’s written in the 2nd person, so the reader is Ariel, and it all feels very real if not a bit strange to get used to at first. It’s about interracial and interfaith family. And it’s about dysgraphia, an important part of Ariel’s identity and growth. This book should make the Schneider Family list.