All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. Painful secrets rear their heads jobs go off the rails evictions loom. She begins dating women-soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach.īut before long, trouble arrives. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. Through exquisite observations, Sarah Thankam Mathews reflects on the gift of having people you can count on, who anchor you through new chapters.” -NPR’s “Books We Love”įrom a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself-a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America

“If you’ve ever wanted to read a love letter to friendship, this is it. But you’ll fall most in love with its wickedly sharp narrator, who’s funny, passionate, and complicated.” - The Cut “ All This Could Be Different is a bildungsroman, a gorgeous queer love story, and a musing on labor and immigration.

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews