![]() Sarah's Thankam Mathews is making a terrific debut with All This Could Be Different-longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction and a finalist for our own Discover Prize-and she joins us on the show to talk about channeling her characters, subverting the coming-of-age novel, challenging the expectations of the immigrant experience, queerness, finding our people and much more with Poured Over’s host, Miwa Messer. And I wrote for someone who would need to read this, who would be reading this book after work on the subway.” And so for me, when I wrote this novel, I did not write it for a critic at The New York Times, you know. I think that pleasure and care, these are antidotes against various kinds of violence and degradation that we're all beset with. ![]() ![]() “So you know, something that is a big part of my project…is actually this idea that we deserve pleasure. ![]()
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