![]() ![]() There’s ultimately this real willingness to look at each other as human and over time commit to each other.” These are characters, in Mathews’ words, that “are certainly not saints to each other and they fail each other a bunch of times but there’s not that extractiveness. ![]() It’s devastating but never maudlin or cynical, interweaving the way racial capitalism affects daily life without reading like a textbook. Mathews’ take on community, gender, and love is revelatory and fresh, never falling into the cloying traps many Buzzy Books do. It’s a confident and warm geode of a novel that follows Sneha as she navigates her first job out of college in Milwaukee and her first relationship with a woman. ![]() Thankfully, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ debut novel All This Could Be Different (August 2, Viking) is easily a contender for Book of the Year. ![]() There’s always a hint of fear when a Buzzy Book finally comes out-the right balance between crafting something beautiful and something that engages with The Culture is difficult to strike. Buzzy Books are first-person novels, often about twentysomethings, that take on capitalism and sex in an attempt to say something about The Culture. Pride Spotlight: For Pride Month, Observer is celebrating a variety of queer creatives with our Pride Spotlight series.Įvery year there is the season of the Buzzy Book. ![]()
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