For a one-stop counter to all those trend pieces bemoaning the supposed “death” of the rom-com, look to Helen Hoang. Last year, her fizzy debut, The Kiss Quotient — a reverse-ish Pretty Woman about a ...

“What. Had. His Mom. Been. Thinking.” Young men the world over have had this thought, but for most it doesn’t occur after their mother, arms laden with litchis, pops out of her Camry and announces ...

An Indian bride canceled her wedding after her groom recited the multiplication table of two incorrectly. A bride and groom who wish to remain unidentified were supposed to have the wedding for their ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “The Bride Test,” by Helen Hoang (Berkley, fiction, on sale ...

Virginity is highly respected in the Banyankole tribe of South Uganda. Since, she must be a virgin, the man must also be great in bed. It is the responsibility of the aunt to ensure that before the ...

Here’s an easy math problem: two lovebirds, minus one bride, is one lonely groom. That’s what happened after an Indian bride ditched her soon-to-be groom at their wedding ceremony for failing to ...

Hoang’s touching second contemporary romance (after The Kiss Quotient) explores what the American dream might mean to a young, mixed-race Vietnamese woman and the autistic Vietnamese-American man ...

Helen Hoang's sophomore novel proves she's here to stay and a new auto-buy author for me. "The Bride Test" introduces us to Khai, an autistic businessman who doesn't think he can love until his mom ...

With her debut novel The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang quickly established herself as an author to watch. Published last June, the romance — which follows an autistic woman named Stella who hires an ...

Her encore, The Bride Test, is even better. Hoang’s books are tenderly personal. The author, diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2016, put an autistic heroine at the center of Kiss; a minor ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “The Bride Test,” by Helen Hoang (Berkley, fiction, on sale ...