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All This Could Be Different
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All This Could Be Different
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An introduction to All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
All This Could Be Different begins with Sneha, a twenty-two-year-old Indian woman, moving to Milwaukee after college for a punishing corporate job. She hopes work will help her secure financial stability, a means to support her parents back in India and perhaps eventually a green card. But most of all she wishes for a period when she can live freely as a queer person before taking up the restrictions she knows will come with adult life.
With money in her checking account and newly downloaded dating apps, Sneha begins to build a life for herself. She meets Tig, a charismatic Black townie who works an array of minimum-wage gigs while studying philosophy at a for-profit college. She reconnects with Thom, a dudebro college friend turned coworker. And she, in chance meetings across this lovely rusted city, runs again and again into Marina, a beguiling white dance teacher recently transplanted from Los Angeles. Their connection, burning and magnetic as it may be, is compromised from the beginning, when Sneha tells Marina a wild lie about herself on their very first date.
Prickly, sensitive, and avoidant, Sneha navigates the challenges of being truly close and open with anybody, even in the throes of a dizzying romance. Crisis follows crisis, and she starts to spiral downward. Jobs go off the rails, rents demand to be paid. Landlords and bosses bring their own challenges to these young people’s lives, alongside the pushes and pulls of love and friendship. It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical plan, hoping to save them all.
As wry, tender, and multifaceted as its protagonist, All This Could Be Different is at once an emotionally arresting coming-of-age story; a frank and funny novel of working lives, friendship, race, and class; and a moving group portrait of young people forging community out of struggle. Most of all, it’s a redemptive exploration of interdependence, love, and one young woman’s journey to make a home in the world.
All This Could Be Different begins with Sneha, a twenty-two-year-old Indian woman, moving to Milwaukee after college for a punishing corporate job. She hopes work will help her secure financial stability, a means to support her parents back in India and perhaps eventually a green card. But most of all she wishes for a period when she can live freely as a queer person before taking up the restrictions she knows will come with adult life.
With money in her checking account and newly downloaded dating apps, Sneha begins to build a life for herself. She meets Tig, a charismatic Black townie who works an array of minimum-wage gigs while studying philosophy at a for-profit college. She reconnects with Thom, a dudebro college friend turned coworker. And she, in chance meetings across this lovely rusted city, runs again and again into Marina, a beguiling white dance teacher recently transplanted from Los Angeles. Their connection, burning and magnetic as it may be, is compromised from the beginning, when Sneha tells Marina a wild lie about herself on their very first date.
Prickly, sensitive, and avoidant, Sneha navigates the challenges of being truly close and open with anybody, even in the throes of a dizzying romance. Crisis follows crisis, and she starts to spiral downward. Jobs go off the rails, rents demand to be paid. Landlords and bosses bring their own challenges to these young people’s lives, alongside the pushes and pulls of love and friendship. It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical plan, hoping to save them all.
As wry, tender, and multifaceted as its protagonist, All This Could Be Different is at once an emotionally arresting coming-of-age story; a frank and funny novel of working lives, friendship, race, and class; and a moving group portrait of young people forging community out of struggle. Most of all, it’s a redemptive exploration of interdependence, love, and one young woman’s journey to make a home in the world.
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