Incense and sensibility - sonali dev

Yash Raje, Californias first Indian-American gubernatorial candidate, has always known exactly what he wants--and how to use his privileged background to get it.

He attributes his success to a simple mantra: control your feelings and you can control the world.

But when a hate crime at a rally critically injures his friend, Yashs easy life suddenly feels like a lie, his control an illusion.

When he tries to get back on the campaign trail, he blacks out with panic.

Desperate to keep Yashs condition from leaking to the media, his family turns to the one person they trust--his sisters best friend, India Dashwood, Californias foremost stress management coach.

Raised by a family of yoga teachers, India has helped San Franciscos high strung overachievers for a decade without so much as altering her breath.

But this man--with his boundless ambition, simmering intensity, and absolute faith in his political beliefs--is like no other.

Yash has spent a lifetime repressing everything to succeed, including their one magical night ten years ago--a too brief, too bright passion that if rekindled threatens to destroy the dream hes willingly shouldered for his family and community .

until now.

Incense and Sensibility is a tender, well-crafted novel, as much about finding purpose as it is about falling in love.

Dev writes with such rare empathy and humor that I often found myself holding my breath on one page only to be giggling by the next.

This is the kind of book you finish with a whole-body, happy sigh and a warm ache in your chest where the characters will live on.

Yash and Indias story will stick with me for a long time.

-- Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach ReadYash Raje, Californias first Indian-American gubernatorial candidate, has always known exactly what he wants--and how to use his privileged background to get it.

He attributes his success to a simple mantra: control your feelings and you can control the world.

But when a hate crime at a rally critically injures his friend, Yashs easy life suddenly feels like a lie, his control an illusion.

When he tries to get back on the campaign trail, he blacks out with panic.

Desperate to keep Yashs condition from leaking to the media, his family turns to the one person they trust--his sisters best friend, India Dashwood, Californias foremost stress management coach.

Raised by a family of yoga teachers, India has helped San Franciscos high strung overachievers for a decade.