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Sarah Thankam Mathews

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Sarah Thankam Mathews is an Indian-American novelist. Her debut novel, All This Could Be Different, was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction.

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Early life

Mathews was born in Bangalore, India to Malayali parents.[1] Her parents quickly moved with her to Muscat, Oman where she was raised in a tight-knit Indian enclave.[1]

She moved to the United States with her family when she was 17.[1][2][3] She attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,[4] where she served as president of the Wisconsin Union Directorate in 2012–2013.[5][6] She subsequently attended the Iowa Writers Workshop as a Rona Jaffe Fellow.[7]

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Career

Mathews' first novel, All This Could Be Different, was published by Penguin Books in 2022. The novel centers a South Asian queer protagonist who is navigating love, friendship, and career in Milwaukee during the Great Recession and the Obama presidency.[2][8][9] The novel was received with critical acclaim and was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award.[2][10]

Mathews was also previously a Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop,[11] and her short story, Rubberdust, was selected for The Best American Short Stories of 2020.[12][13]

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Personal life

Mathews lives in Brooklyn and considers Kerala to be her ancestral home.[1]

Published works

  • (2022) All This Could Be Different. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-593-48912-3

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