Fool Me Twice

Sana has always been the girl who does everything right: top grades, the favorite of teachers and parents, a life other people envy. She and Ashish have been together since the eleventh grade, a teenage romance sweet enough to make their single friends groan, and even long distance cannot come between them.

Then a drunk driver on New Year's Eve destroys everything she thought was settled. In the aftermath, Sana finds herself drawn to Pranav, a charming, overachieving, book-loving senior at her college who is also the brother of her new friend Aanchal. He is supposed to be nothing more than a friend.

Set in New Delhi, Fool Me Twice is not the straightforward romance its opening may suggest. Nona Uppal follows a twenty-year-old coping with a grief that would flatten most people twice her age. The novel asks what it means to fall in love 'again' when most of her peers are only just falling for the first time, and what it feels like to mourn one great love while making room for another.