Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance by Nisha Sharma
While dancing at the International Katahk Classics dance semifinals in London, Radha overhears two other contestants gossiping that Radha only wins competitions because her mother (a former dancer herself) offers sexual favors to key judges. While Radha is upset, because she works extremely hard on her dancing, she also begins to question some of her mother's strange behavior lately, and wonders if she really COULD be cheating. Radha feels herself begin to have a panic attack, and decides to leave the dance competition. She is stopped on the way out by her angry mother, whom Radha confronts about the allegations, which she does not deny. 7 months later, and Radha's parents have separated and she and her mother have moved from Chicago to New Jersey, where Radha plans to attend an arts school, but no longer focus on dancing as a potential career. Her father, who owns an Indian restaurant back in Chicago, sends her a recipe notebook belonging to her grandfather, along with a l...