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All This Could Be Different
2022
First Published
3.82
Average Rating
320
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Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She's moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, gruelling 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. It's then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all.

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Author

Sarah Thankam Mathews
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Author · 2 books

Thankam: thun like thunder, gum like gumdrop. Mathews with one T: the Keralite way. Any pronouns. Grew up between Oman and India, immigrating to the US in my late teens. Organizes sometimes: climate, immigration, mutual aid. Debut novel All This Could Be Different, shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award, Discover Prize, Aspen Literary Prize. Work in Best American Short Stories 2020 and other places. Proud product of public schools. Lives in Brooklyn, New York. Grateful for anyone who has read my book!

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