“This bold and wide-ranging novel sets its sights on what it really means to be 'okay'. “A darkly witty and finely wrought exploration of the struggle to embrace one's identity, this debut also illuminates the hardships of immigrant life, the elusiveness of lasting romantic love-and ultimately the joy and belonging that can come from a 'family' of friends.” - People All This Could Be Different, in which the lives of a group of millennials become fascinatingly entangled offers us a panoramic view of mingled desires, fears, and joys that will be familiar to readers of Eliot and Austen, but does them one better: her novel is about an underrepresented first-generation immigrant, and it’s incredibly gay.” - Los Angeles Review of Books

“What fuels is love, a force Mathews portrays not as a panacea but as an instrument of change.” - The New Yorker “Mathews has a big heart and a sharp tongue… a wonderful eye for the things that make friendship and community just as valuable as romance.” - The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all.Ī 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 immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world. 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.

with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time.” - Entertainment Weeklyįrom 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 “ One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” - Vogue Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more

ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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