The American Jasmine 'Jazz' Gardner is staying in India with her parents and brother Eric during the (monsoon)summer. Jazz is sad to leave her boyfriend back in Berkeley. In India they will visit the orphanage Asha Bari, wich was her mother's first home, and where she was adopted by her new parents from the United States. Her father is going to help the Sisters from the orphanage installing computers, while her mother is going to help with medical care. Jazz isn't sure what her place is in her new surroundings. She starts at a local upperclass school, but during the book she decides that helping at Asha Bari is more her kind of thing.
Jazz also meets Danita, a girl from the orphanage, wich is going to work as a housekeeper for the Gardner family during their stay. Danita wants to earn money for her dowry, so she can marry the guy who has eyes for her a long time, even tough she hasn't met him one time. But because of the fact that she is from a lower caste, this might be the only chance for a better life for her. But is this really what Danita wants? Jasmine gets a chance to help Danita, and her passion for helping people grows when Jasmine discovers the talent Danita has for designing clothes.
Jasmine is worrying about her Steve, her boyfriend back in Berkeley, is her abscense during her India stay the chance for him to date the most popular girl? Or will he wait for Jazz?
Monsoom Summer by the fabulous Mitali Perkins is a one of a kind book between cultures. If you are a lover of reading about other cultures, and love to learn about it, this is THE book. Looking for a real original book? Pick this!
Mitali Perkins is the author of many just fantastic books and Monsoon Summer is no exception to that. You will be swooned away in the life of the main character, Jasmine. Jasmine really grows during the story, and it is just fun to read wich choices she makes and how her time in India is changing her. This is just a perfect, exceptional and original book.Hope there will be more new books by Mitali Perkins soon..
Great review. I love the colors on the cover.
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