![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Sneha is preoccupied with her girlfriend for much of the book, this is actually a story about friendship. She relates these experiences in an unforgettable narrative voice: dryly funny, self-analytical, a little sarcastic and full of heart. She lands an entry-level job at a consulting firm in Milwaukee and starts fresh in a new city, where she encounters financial successes and catastrophes, makes friends and falls into a heady romance. as a teenager, but her parents have since returned to India, leaving Sneha alone. In the manner of books that stay with you forever, All This Could Be Different is a singular story that extends beyond itself.Īt 22, Sneha graduates from college into a tanked economy. Yet Mathews also captures some unnamable, essential thing about being a 20-something struggling through work and love and late-stage capitalism in the United States in the mid-2000s. ![]() Bitingly funny and sweetly earnest, it’s one of those rare novels that feels just like life, its characters so specific in their desires and experiences that you’re sure you’ve met them-or maybe you’re about to. Perhaps it’s too soon to say which books we’ll look back on in 50 years as the ones that defined a generation, but Sarah Thankam Mathews’ debut, a close-to-perfect coming-of-age romp, is surely a contender. ![]()
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