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Rosewood: A Midsummer Meet Cute
Sayantani DasGupta
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 978-1-338-79772-5
Keywords: romance, minority casting on television, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Desi, South Asian
At a summer camp casting a multicultural TV adaptation of Jane Austen, two teenagers of Bengali and Bangladeshi Chinese Singaporean heritage fall in love. Many amusing misunderstandings.