all this could be different sarah thankam mathews

So I would definitely say that I have a long list of debts to people from all over. Well, I don’t believe that anyone does anything worthwhile alone, ever. Was there a person or information source that helped demystify the publishing world for you? It’s cool to not have any of us navigating single-story politics-we exist in multiplicity, and the culture is catching up. I was reading Davey Davis’s X and SJ Sindhu’s Blue-Skinned Gods, for example, and I was like, Damn, this is so great. I’m very excited and honored to potentially be one of them, and it’s not something I take for granted. And I think what I feel hyped about, personally, is that it feels like there are a fair few queer books at the moment. She is, in the end, that most recognizable and foolhardy of things-a young person eager to make her life her own, all while reckoning with the sacrifices her parents made to get her to where she is. Still, she’s not a saint, either-Sneha is full of judgments, stated and otherwise-and it’s this imperfection that makes her feel so vividly real. Sneha is by no means an Unlikeable Female Protagonist™ it’s hard not to root for her as she leaps into the world of queer dating, tries to keep her work life and friendships afloat, and does her best to prevent her racist landlord from retaliating against her on daily. Mathews’s protagonist, Sneha, is a young Indian immigrant living in Milwaukee at the tail end of Obama’s second term, and watching her choices (of where to live, who to love, how to exist in the world) rapidly narrow as her life devolves into ordinary chaos is a breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful adventure. In writer and organizer Sarah Thankam Mathews’s debut novel, All This Could Be Different, the prose is electrified by the high stakes on the page.

All this could be different sarah thankam mathews