The struggle of most of her age-mates in post-financial-crisis America plays out in Sneha's friends and colleagues, and what's notable about Sneha's situation is that she accepts it without complaint or at least without whining. A recent graduate from an unnamed college in what is by implication a more sophisticated part of the States, fate whisks her off to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to take a job with a decent salary (that she negotiates up) as a consultant with a Fortune 500 company. She has come to America with her parents, who have returned to Karnataka after her father is deported for business malfeasance. Her protagonist, Sneha, has barely taken the stage before she clarifies how to pronounce her name (SNAY-hah). But there's nothing generic about her depiction of being a first-generation immigrant with Indian parents.
As much a truism as "all this could be different" is "there's nothing new under the sun." Mathews tackles themes and trends that count as familiar ground in literary fiction.
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