“An extraordinary novel, spiny and delicate, scathingly funny and wildly moving.” ―Lauren Groff, author of Matrix “Sarah Thankam Mathews’ prose is undeniable.” ―Raven Leilani, author of Luster From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself―a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century AmericaGraduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women―soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the
