‘Gold Diggers,’ by Sanjena Sathian. (Penguin Random House)
“As I wrote
Gold Diggers, I started to get more empathetic about why some forms of ambition are treated as more legitimate than others. So much of that has to do with safety,” says Sathian.
Gold Diggers highlights the story of Indian American teenagers striving for success and grappling with mediocrity. The main characters, Neil and Anita, begin drinking an alchemic lemonade made with gold to keep pace with the ambitions of their peers and their community.
“I was handed stories about the immigrant experience and lonely nostalgic immigrants who missed the homeland,” says Sathian. “The things I desperately need to see are people like me participating in America. I wanted to write a very American novel.”
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A recording has emerged of Tom Cruise apparently shouting at workers on the set of Mission: Impossible 7 and threatening to fire them if they broke Covid-19 guidelines.
The Sun published the expletive-laden audio in which Cruise said: If I see you doing it again, you re. gone.
The paper said Cruise had seen two crew members standing too close to one another in front of a computer screen .
Variety and Reuters quoted sources confirming the audio was genuine.
Filming is currently taking place in the UK. The Sun did not say when the incident happened, but film-makers returned to the country in early December, according to Reuters.