A Guardian and a Thief: A Novel

climate visa

"grids holding not numbers but words written in the Bengali script that folded and straightened like caterpillars upon a stem"

buses failing pollution tests, heatstroke (recently read an article headline that day laborers who cant work because of heat by law would still want to for the wages)

"But the room's envious eyes could not see his apprehension. Those eyes saw only their triumph." (fiction writing lets you see the inside that an observer/narrator of a non-fiction would only see the surface. Is this the empathy with roots in the German concept of Einfühlung, or "feeling into" that fiction reading is supposed to develop in a reader, an inner eye)