Julie Randeria has always worshipped her smart, independent older sister Maya. When she follows Maya to a community college physics class, she sees Maya degraded and loses faith in her. Sometimes when you lose a little bit of faith in humanity, you start along a path to losing all of your self, too. Alienated from a society determined to see them as exotic others, each sister strikes out on her own as their family mythology continues to unravel. Lyrical, provocative, and dark, "Sparks Off You" is an existential coming of age novel that follows two Indian-American sisters struggling to determine their reality in the Bay Area at the dawn of the tech boom, even if it means losing each other.