The Vibrant Years
Books | Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy
4.3
Sonali Dev
"Bursting with humor, banter, and cringeworthy first dates, Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years is a joyful and fun read, but it's also very much a timely tale about a group of underestimated women demanding respect and embracing their most authentic selves." --Mindy Kaling Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she's astounded--and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake from her youth. Desperate to keep the secret, Bindu quickly spends it on something unexpected: a condo in a posh retirement community in Florida. The impulsive decision blindsides Bindu's daughter-in-law, Aly. At forty-seven, Aly still shares a home with Bindu even after her divorce from Bindu's son. But maybe this change is just the push Aly needs to fight for the segment she's been promised for years at the news station where she works. As Bindu and Aly navigate their new dynamic, Aly's daughter, Cullie, is faced with losing the business that made her a tech-world star. The only way to save it is to deliver a new idea to her investors--and of course they want the half-baked dating app she pitched them in a panic. Problem is, Cullie has never been on a real date. Naturally, enlisting her single mother and grandmother to help her with the research is the answer. From USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev comes a heartfelt novel about three generations of hilarious, unconventional, ambitious women navigating bad dates, a spiteful HOA board, reemerging exes, and secrets that refuse to remain hidden. Join the Desai women on a shared journey of self-discovery as they dare to live their most vibrant lives.
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Author
Sonali Dev
Pages
316
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Published Date
2022
ISBN
166250926X 9781662509261
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"Beautiful, multi-generational book about three Indian women, all dealing with their own issues and all trying to support each other. Absolutely loved it, especially since the main character was in her sixties, something you don’t see often. I would love for this to become a movie or limited series."
"3.5/5 ⭐️ I am such a sucker for stories about family. This book follows the lives of three generations of women each on an individual journey of self discovery and romance. I loved the women in this story and the ways they supported each other as they were navigating what they wanted out of life. This book kind of gave me the vibes of two other books I have read recently - Daisy Jones and The Six and The Fortunes of Jaded Women (low key old school celebrity vibes and complexities in relationships of the first and the humor and messiness of family drama interacting of the second). This also included a decent amount of romance in the life of each woman, and while I did enjoy these inclusions (as a romance girlie), I thought that none of them got the time fully needed to be fleshed out as the story covered so much between the three shifting perspectives."
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