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3 weeks ago | 
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com | Sharnell Johnson |Sanjena Sathian
By Sharnell Johnson | March 28 2025 | NewsFridayReads Have you read this yet? Reading this right now?
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1 month ago | 
bookreporter.com | Sanjena Sathian
Following 2021’s GOLD DIGGERS, Sanjena Sathian’s second novel opens with its protagonist, Sanjana Satyananda, in a state of in-betweenness. Things had fallen apart with her husband, Killian, several months earlier, so Sanjana left Goa and returned to New York City. To save money, she has moved out of her apartment and is caroming between her best friend Lia’s place in Brooklyn and her sister Maneesha’s in New Haven.
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1 month ago | 
news.nestia.com | Sanjena Sathian
We recommend a bounty of good fiction this week, with a collection by Torrey Peters, a mystery by Deanna Raybourn and new novels from Chaim Grade, Karen Russell and others. In nonfiction, we like a journalist’s look back at a little-remembered episode of police brutality from the 1980s and a damning, juicy tell-all by a former Facebook insider. Happy reading.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Sanjena Sathian
My mother’s name is Usha, and for years, when I told non-South Asian people her name, I’d watch them squint, trying to picture the spelling. But these days, it clicks immediately: Usha, like Usha Chilukuri Vance, the Second Lady of the United States. When people make the connection, I want to add that my family and I have nothing in common with the “Other Usha," the lawyer-turned-enigmatic political wife who stands by her man—the vice president—as he denigrates immigrants and women alike.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Sanjena Sathian
The first stories I ever wrote, in elementary school, were through the eyes of what we once called “tomboys”: short-haired girls who climbed trees and scraped their knees and cantered horses through forests in rainstorms—girls who cried only in private; girls like Jo March and Scout Finch and Pippi Longstocking; girls who resisted their girlhood, or whatever the world told them girlhood was.
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1 month ago | 
entertainment-mag.com | Sanjena Sathian
“Goddess Complex”is astute about the repetitiveness of misery, and how pain can accrete like an enclosing wall, rising to block out the rest of the world. As Sanjana’s desperation builds, so do the grievances of those she loves.
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1 month ago | 
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com | Maureen Meekins |Sanjena Sathian
Q: Libraries are beloved for their sense of community. Do you remember a time when your library made you feel like a part of something bigger? A: I feel like I was raised by libraries! When I was a kid, my parents took me our local public library branch, marched me up to the front desk, and asked the librarians to help me pick out books because I was tearing through them too quickly for anyone to keep up with recommendations. After that, I always depended on public librarians and school librarians.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Sanjena Sathian
GODDESS COMPLEX, by Sanjena SathianIf you're a woman in America and you don't want children - and if you're honest about this when people ask - then you might be excessively familiar with the common follow-up opinions, questions, warnings. You'll change your mind. What does your partner think? You're wrong. You'll regret it; once you come to your senses, it could be too late. Part of what can be striking about such rebuttals, over time, is how little they vary.
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1 month ago | 
vulture.com | Sanjena Sathian
This review was originally published on February 24. We’re republishing it now that Dream Count is out. In the 12 years since releasing her best-selling novel Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has published prolifically but not primarily as a writer of literary fiction. Instead, she has ventured into other forms: memoir, children’s literature, feminist manifesto, a public lecture on free speech.
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2 months ago | 
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com | Kate McManus |Sanjena Sathian |Robert Bennett |Brendan Slocumb
By Kate McManus | February 12 2025 | Starred Reviews With starred reviews from publications including Library Journal, Booklist, and AudioFile— your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.
