The Windfall

by Diksha Basu

crumble. “He’s fine. He has a tennis coach now. He’s improving.” “He’s twenty-eight.

spouse is someone with whom you can successfully run a boring nonprofit organization. Don’t

It was strange that she had such a different idea of what it meant to be a woman. For her, life had been about

raising a family. There was no mystery, there were no secrets. She had never thought about her clothes or her body and apart from the occasional pedicure, she did not pay much attention to how anything looked below the neck.

how? This city, this country, doesn’t make it easy for single women. You know that. It’s changing—the next generation will have it easier,