The Mismatch

A kiss is never just a kiss in The Mismatch,a cross-generational story about lovefamilyfaithand finding yourself. ΓÇ£Enlighteningpoignantand romantic . . . The Mismatch transported me back to that feeling of first love and first heartbreak.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöSophie CousensNew York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year Now that Soraya Nazari has graduated from universityshe thinks itΓÇÖs time to get some of the life experience she feels sheΓÇÖs lackingpartly due to her strict upbringingΓÇöand Magnus Evans seems like the perfect way to get it. Where sheΓÇÖs the somewhat timidartistic daughter of Iranian immigrantsMagnus is the quintessential British lad. They have little in commonso thereΓÇÖs no way Soraya could ever fall for him. WhatΓÇÖs the harm in having some fun as she navigates her postgrad life? And he could give her some distance from her increasingly complicated home lifewhere things are strained by her fatherΓÇÖs strugglesher motherΓÇÖs unhappiness and her eldest sisterΓÇÖs estrangement under a vague cloud of shame fifteen years earlier. Distracting herself with Magnus is easy at first. But just as Soraya realizes thereΓÇÖs more to Magnus than she thoughtlong-buried secretsand hard questionsbegin to surfaceΓÇöwill any of her relationships survive the truth coming out? Moving between modern-day London and revolutionary IranThe Mismatch is a gorgeously written coming-of-age story that follows a young woman as she finds love in a most unexpected placeand a path in life amid two different cultures.