Together Tea is a warm, funny, and heartfelt novel about family, cultural identity, and the search for a true sense of home. Darya believes she has found the perfect twenty-fifth birthday gift for her daughter Mina: the ideal Iranian-American husband, carefully selected through years of matchmaking and detailed spreadsheets.
Mina, however, is exhausted by her mother’s relentless quest to find her a spouse. Having grown up between Tehran and New York City, she is caught between expectations from her Iranian heritage and the independence of her American life. The biggest conflicts, she discovers, are not always in the outside world but at the heart of family.
After one last disastrous attempt at arranging a match, mother and daughter travel back to Iran together. Immersed again in Persian culture, they reconnect with relatives, memories, and the country they once called home. As Darya and Mina rediscover Iran, they also begin to see each other with new understanding.
When Mina unexpectedly falls for a young man who was never on her mother’s matchmaking radar, both women must decide how much they are willing to change. Filled with humour, tenderness, and rich cultural detail, Together Tea explores love, generational tensions, and what it means to truly belong.
