The novel is at its best when we’re given a clear glimpse of the emotional shibboleth separating Sneha from Marina. Simple actions - sleeping with whomever you want to sleep with, making meaningful connections with your friends - become radical, a message that will be especially resounding in a contemporary America where LGBTQIA2S+ rights are under attack.
t’s this focus on Sneha’s desires that makes the novel particularly luminous. manages the rare feat of being both lyrical and page-turning. Mathews offers us a panoramic view of mingled desires, fears, and joys that will be familiar to readers of Eliot and Austen, but she does them one better: her novel is about an underrepresented first-generation immigrant, and it’s incredibly gay.
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