All This Could Be Different: A Novel

ISBN: 0593489144

Author: Thankam Mathews, Sarah

Condition: New

2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES'TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEARNamed one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and moreOne of the buzziest, most human novels of the yearbreathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful. -VogueDazzling and wholly original...[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time. -Entertainment WeeklyFrom 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 AmericaGraduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. Shes 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. She begins dating women-soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach.But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. 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. Its then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all.A beautiful and capacious novel rendered in singular, unforgettable prose, All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrants journey to make her home in the world.