Luv Shuv In New York

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Luv Shuv in New York </em>is an interracial contemporary romance with lots of humor opposites attract goodness a touch of forbidden love steam and full-on Indian family drama.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Akira Mishra</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My father had one request-more like a condition-to allow me to leave our large Indian joint family and move to New York to pursue my master's degree.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To not get involved with anyone who wasn't a </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Desi boy</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p>And I did not miss a beat before I agreed.</p><p>Because why not?</p><p><br></p><p>All I wanted was Freedom. To live away from my overbearing-but very sweet and supportive-family.</p><p>To study hard.</p><p>Find a job in NYC.</p><p>And make it on my own like millions of my fellow Indian immigrants.</p><p><br></p><p>My plan was all set.</p><p><br></p><p>So of course it's completely ruined when I sit beside <strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>him</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> on the first day of my class.</span></p><p>.</p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Sam White.</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sam White my White American classmate.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sam with his dark-as-sin clothes a permanent frown etched on his face and his perfect grades in class.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sam with his total ignorance about my Indian culture but his determination to understand it better.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So what if he makes me feel a little more at home in an unknown country?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So what if he looks at me like I'm the only one he sees?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I will not fall for him.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>cannot</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> fall for him.</span></p><p>I absolutely cannot break my promise to my father.</p><p>So of course I do.</p>