{"id":15122,"date":"2022-06-06T17:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=15122"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:05:32","slug":"sonya-singh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sonya-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonya Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sonya Singh is a Toronto-based author who previously worked as an entertainment reporter and a communications professional. Singh’s debut novel, Sari, Not Sari<\/em> became an instant best seller in North America. It will be published in the UK under the title The Breakup Expert<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Fake Matchmaker: A Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2026.
forthcoming March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

While her brothers are finding their soulmates and planning the rest of their lives, Manisha Patel is moving back in with her parents, dodging calls from her cheating Aquarius ex-boyfriend, and avoiding questions about her love life. Worse, she’s being forced to help out her father’s friend’s son, and Manisha would rather be doing anything else. Rohit Khanna may be incredibly hot and have great style, but he’s also arrogant, rude, and (allegedly) a cheater, and Manisha wants nothing to do with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these things turn out to be the least of Manisha’s worries when she gets the heartbreaking news that her dream of one day having a family might slip through her fingers. Then, a stroke of genius: What if there was a fake matchmaking service where Manisha was the only client? One single profile, countless eligible bachelors for Manisha to choose from. It’s the perfect plan to find a husband and live happily ever after. . . . Isn’t it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sari, Not Sari<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Simon and Schuster Canada, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Manny Dogra is the beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company that helps people manage their relationship breakups. As preoccupied as she is with her business, she\u2019s also planning her wedding to handsome architect Adam Jamieson while dealing with the loss of her beloved parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For reasons Manny has never understood, her mother and father, who were both born in India, always wanted her to become an \u201cAll-American\u201d girl. So that\u2019s what she did. She knows next to nothing about her South Asian heritage, and that\u2019s never been a problem\u2014until her parents are no longer around, and an image of Manny that\u2019s been Photoshopped to make her skin look more white appears on a major magazine cover. Suddenly, the woman who built an empire encouraging people to be true to themselves is having her own identity crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when an irritating client named Sammy Patel approaches Manny with an odd breakup request, the perfect solution presents itself: If they both agree to certain terms, he\u2019ll give her a crash course in being \u201cIndian\u201d at his brother\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows is days of dancing and dal, masala and mehndi as Manny meets the lovable, if endlessly interfering, aunties and uncles of the Patel family, and, along the way, discovers much more than she could ever have anticipated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sonya Singh personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Doubleday Canada<\/a>, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Simon and Schuster Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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