![]() ![]() ![]() Piece by piece she gathers and nurtures the fragments of a good life. But the rewards are bountiful: the vertigo of young life in a new and expanding city, a budding friendship with the charismatic and freewheeling Tig, a quiet obsession with Marina, a ballet dancer who she runs into again and again, and the ability to send money by wire transfer to her parents two oceans away in India. Sarah Thankam Mathews grew up between Oman and India, and immigrated to the United States at seventeen. ![]() Her nights are spent ordering furniture off the internet, trying out the newfangled invention of dating apps, and avoiding confrontation with the terrifying property manager who lives below her. Sarah Thankam Mathews reads her story 'Rubberdust,' backed by an original Storybound remix, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. She is, as her boss reminds her, a "contractor, no benefits." A recent college graduate freshly arrived in Milwaukee, she occupies her days with rote, stressful work as a young consultant for a battery production corporation. I am trying, late in the evening, to say something about love, which for many of us is not separable from the other shit.'Īll This Could be Different introduces us to Sneha. One of the buzziest, most human novels of the yearbreathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful. 'This is not a story about work or precarity. she captures the sneaky, unsaying parts of longing' 'Sarah Thankam Mathews' prose is undeniable. 'An extraordinary novel, spiny and delicate, scathingly funny and wildly moving' ![]()
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