As we get off the rickshaw to meet former flight attendant and now author of two books, Kainaz Jussawalla, at her home in Khar, we can almost taste the salt from the Arabian Sea. But the avid food lover is anything but salty; she eases us into her home with paneer samosas and a cappuccino. “Hi! Please come on in!” she says with a smile that can replace a thousand light bulbs.

Jussawalla’s latest book—Who Wants To Marry Kai Juicewalla?: One Life, Many Loves, Endless (Mis)adventures—is about her quest to find ‘the one’. Her journey with the written word started right out of college when she wrote for Savvy magazine, after a couple of years she caught the travel bug and became a flight attendant, a job she did for over a decade before she quit recently. But she never gave up writing; while crisscrossing across the world, she wrote for Times Of India, Bandra Buzz, and even Playboy magazine.