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All This Could Be Different: A Novel
Viking
ISBN13:
9780593489123
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A Phenomenal Book Club Pick A Vogue Book Club Pick A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick A The Rumpus Book Club Pick All This Could Be Different is a bildungsroman, a gorgeous queer love story, and a musing on labor and immigration. But youll fall most in love with its wickedly sharp narrator, whos funny, passionate, and complicated. The Cut If youve ever wanted to read a love letter to friendship, this is it . . . Through exquisite observations, Sarah Thankam Mathews reflects on the gift of having people you can count on, who anchor you through new chapters. NPRs Books We Love From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herselfa warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America Graduating 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 womensoon 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.
- | Author: Sarah Thankam Mathews
- | Publisher: Viking
- | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 0593489128
- | ISBN-13: 9780593489123
- Author:
- Sarah Thankam Mathews
- Publisher:
- Viking
- Publication Date:
- Aug 02, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 320 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 0593489128
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593489123