![]() ![]() ![]() Her novel is a dark, funny, moving portrait of a young Indian-American woman navigating a struggling marriage, its accompanying infidelity, and a heroin addiction. The raw power of its narrator's voice and vision of the world have stayed with me for years. ![]() "The old hags, the dykes, the frigid, the unf-ed, the unf-ables, the neurotics, the psychos, for all those girls who don't get a look in the universal market of the consumable chick." A memorable feminist work of memoir, commentary, polemic, and theory. "I write as an ugly one for the ugly ones," Despentes spits in an absolute banger of an opening. Sarah's book is right up front and if you want to Ask questions. King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (2006) Sarah Thankam Matthews grew up between Oman and India immigrating to the. It's a slim blade of a book at 224 pages: mordantly funny, utterly unforgettable. His younger brother tells the story of a family in fiendish pain and their individual journeys into the future. Their older son has a grotesque and life-changing accident. Family Life by Akhil Sharma (2014)Ī family immigrates from India to the U.S. Stay for the towers falling, for Netherland's charismatic, Trinidadian take on Jay Gatsby, for the sweet and haunted narrator, Hans van den Broek, and for O'Neill's long and elegant opera gloves of sentences. ![]() Masterly - perhaps one of the greatest New York City novels. In August's Book Club: All This Could Be Different author Sarah Thankam Mathews and Vogue’s Senior Fashion Projects Editor Julia Hobbs discuss Sarah’s moving new novel. ![]()
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