THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS

An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah Nelson GUARDIAN Immaculately observed I found myself not wanting The Anthropologists to end FINANCIAL TIMES Savas prose is an X ray an acute portrait of the tender frequencies that make a life RAVEN LEILANI Asya and Manu are looking at apartments envisioning their future in a foreign city Removed from the web of family and its obligations what traditions and rituals should they establish together As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing Asya a documentary filmmaker spends her days gathering footage from the neighbourhood park like an anthropologist observing local customs anxious to know how people really live Forget about daily life chides her grandmother on the phone no one cares about that Meanwhile life back in Asya and Manu s respective home countries continues parents age grandparents get sick nieces and nephews grow up all just slightly beyond their reach But the world they re making in their new city is growing too they hope As they open up the horizons of their lives wha