Short stories by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Sarah Thankam Mathews grew up between Oman and India, immigrating to the United States at seventeen. Organizes sometimes. Thankam: thun like thunder, gum like gumdrop. Mathews was formerly a Rona Jaffe Fellow in fiction at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and a Margins Fellow at The Asian American Writers Workshop. Sarah Thankam Mathew's work appears in Best American Short Stories 2020, edited by Curtis Sittenfeld and Heidi Pitlor. Mathew's debut novel, All This Could Be Different, is forthcoming from Viking and W&N in August 2022.
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A little girl navigates her relationships with two boys in her elementary school class, a brash bully and a shy victim, and learns about the nature of suffering.