![]() In her debut novel, Mathews achieves what so often seems to be impossible: a deeply felt “novel of ideas,” for lack of a better phrase. Meanwhile, a childhood trauma is demanding to be reckoned with. Nothing comes easily: Her landlord has it out for her her new girlfriend, Marina, seems to want more than Sneha can give and then Peter, Sneha’s boss, stops paying her. Sneha moves to Milwaukee, where she tries on adulthood like an ill-fitting suit. ![]() ![]() It’s the height of the mid-2000s recession, and Sneha’s immigrant parents have been deported to their native India. A young woman reckons with her first job, her first love, and her first real friends.Īfter she graduates from college, Sneha-the headstrong, intensely self-reliant narrator of this lovely novel-is lucky to find a job as a corporate consultant. ![]()
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