they get to feel like their lives belong only to them. All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews is out now. You captured it perfectly! And I was holding her like a lover, holding her in my arms carefully while my hands worked her. Caitlin, on the other hand, lives part of the year with her wealthy mother Phoebe, whos just moved to Albuquerque, and summers with her father Lamb, equally affluent, on the Vineyard. All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews is a powerful debut novel about friendship, queer love, and succeeding as a young adult in the working world. All This Could Be Different $23,008,530.76 raised for local bookstores All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews (Author) FORMAT Hardcover English $27.00 $25.11 Paperback English Large Print $29.00 $26.97 Available add to cart add to wishlist Description LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Mathews prose is remarkable throughout, short, bright bursts of fragments between languid, snaking sentences that surprise. All This Could Be Different is smart, layered, and often very serious, but it is also very horny (and none of those things contradict each other but rather work together). The characters in All This Could Be Different self-sabotage and self-harm, but these chaaotic choices are often symptoms of the state-sanctioned violences that grip their lives: racism, unaffordable healthcare, xenophobia, homophobia, strictly enforced gender binaries, patriarchy, and more. the National Book Awards, Subscribe Her work has been published in Best American Short Stories and she is a recipient of fellowships from the Asian American Writers Workshop and the More about Sarah Thankam Mathews, A Phenomenal Book Club Pick A Vogue Book Club Pick A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick A Belletrist Book Club Pick A The Rumpus Book Club Pick An Autostraddle Book Club PickMathews has a big heart and a sharp tongue[and] a wonderful eye for the things that make friendship and community just as valuable as romance. The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice)What fuels [All This Could Be Different]is love, a force Mathews portrays not as a panacea [] but as an instrument of change. The New YorkerBoth lyrical and page-turning . Victoria, or more commonly Vix, lives in a small house; her brother has muscular dystrophy; her mother is unhappy, and money is scarce. Rachel Dolezal, the white N.A.A.C.P. Smudge into sameness.. Mathews can be deeply moving at the same time that she is funny; she dips into slang in a way that feels lyrical and rhythmic . And you also could get product's detail information and comparsion, even add it into the wish list in buy page. But S is not the typical coming-of-age protagonist. There are no customer reviews for this item yet. Buy, Aug 02, 2022 But Saraswati argues that the identity she has taken on is not a lie, at times so convincingly that Nivedita almost agrees with her. Judy Blume Her real name is Sarah. Which leads to the question what makes a five star read for you? I think now if a friend were to come to me experiencing difficulty with another friend, I might press this novel into their hands. It is breathtaking in its beauty and profound in its meaning. . . In between, Lily and Atlas steal away for romantic moments that are even sweeter for their authenticity as Lily struggles with child care, breastfeeding, and running a business while trying to find time for herself. In every other part of her life, she is very bad at managing change. Sarah Thankam Mathews I think this is a well-written book, I could not put it down. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. The writing is electric, Mathews really uses language in new ways. All This Could Be Different: A Novel. Hopefully it wont be too much longer before I get to the front of the hold line at the library. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, short stories, and pop culture criticism living in Miami. I did fall into it right from the start, thanks to the complexity of the main character, Sneha, someone who finds herself all alone in a no-mans-land between two cultures (really three), without a strong enough sense of self to claim even a tiny bit of ground for her own. All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews is out now. This was such a quiet gem of a book that I really loved. RELEASE DATE: May 8, 1998. She begins dating womensoon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. Stiff bright fabric, soft ropy arms. We just have to allow ourselves to take them. Thank you. always great to see another queer brown lady here. All this could be different. Privacy Policy . Mathews [charts] the wonders of community-building, delving into the strenuous work that goes into sustaining meaningful friendships as well as the heartbreak that ensues when connections are fractured by dishonesty. All Rights Reserved. The cast of side characters, just as loving and charismatic as they are selfish and stunted, are so richly developed you cant help but recognize them. kayla as i shared with you on twitter, i simply dreaded coming to the end of the book because i never wanted it to be done. She's messy, scared, uncertain, stubborn, yet wonderfully lovable. This is truly such an incredible book, like the realest thing Ive ever read but also the most beautiful? All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews. This book just wasn't for me. All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews is a powerful debut novel about friendship, queer love, and succeeding as a young adult in the working world. a moving immigrants story and a heartfelt queer love story that tackles socioeconomic issues with nuance . | ISBN 9780593489130 Sarah ThankamMathews grew up between Oman and India, immigrating to the United States at seventeen. ), but I didnt want to read this review till I was done. Despite the first person point of view, the book is communal collectivist even in its approach to storytelling. Attempting to live in some version of our own truths can be daunting. Weve seen this story play out in higher education before. She needs a Japanese toilet and a heated pool. Online Returns . We ship anywhere in the U.S. and orders of $75+ ship free via media mail! Atlas, who is single and running a restaurant, feels the same way. Its then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all.A 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 immigrants journey to make her home in the world. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. WHAT? Libraries near you: WorldCat. . Rarely is dialogue rendered so accurately . Being a bit (ahem) older than a millennial, this book didnt quite hit me the same way but its definitely well-written and powerful. ' All This Could Be Different is an extraordinary novel, spiny and delicate, scathingly funny and wildly moving. . I also liked the writing, she has a nice, light hand with metaphor: Get help and learn more about the design. Mathews skillfully dramatizes a story of a young immigrant in difficult and uncertain times in prose elegantly rendered with precision and detail. Ever since I discovered (in Autostraddles summer books preview) that this is set in my hometown, I have been incandescent with excitement to read it! Shallow and unlikable MC. Its title also becomes a rallying cry, the core of Tigs beliefs that they can and should try to build a better life, one in which burdens can be shared and not dealt with in painful isolation. The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. The Fiction Novels Jenny Jackson Is Loving Right Now, Stories & Activities To Celebrate Womens History Month With Kids, Browse All Our Lists, Essays, and Interviews, Gripping Novels for Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid. and bonus: it's gay!!!!!!! In the storms of their circumstances, they must reach for each other for some semblance of purchase. A masterclass in character development, All This Could Be Different provides a textured view of friendship. yeah this is the best book ive ever read. She judges herself, slick with shame. I rooted so hard for Sneha and she's so relatable that I ended up rooting for myself, too. A masterclass in character development . The depiction of Snehas depression and isolation felt so familiar, and I enjoyed so much of Mathews metaphorical writing. such a *MALAYALI* book, that should have said. In February 2020, Sarah Thankam Mathews was struggling to write a novel; freelancing wasn't going so great . Together, they work as consultants for Peter, a boss who dictates what Sneha should wear, how she should be, dangling before her the carrot of possibly, maybe, one day sponsoring her green card. LITERARY FICTION | Both her parents returned to India, leaving Sneha alone in a country still very new to her and with no real way to process this abandonment. . ive never gotten to experience this in literature and, i know this book isnt about performative representation, but it really hits me in the ancestral place, too, in my diasporic malayali heart connected to the pulse of my home place. Mathews with one T: the Keralite way. Greenblue, bluegreen, not hyphenates but one conjoined, complete, sundry thing. I think the book as a whole is about her reluctant journey to understand herself, forced into introspection only when she's feeling close to rock bottom. Whether shes writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Mathews sentences seduce and swathe. Finally, the people in Ss life knock some sense into her over and over again. Lily wont send Emerson to her fathers house overnight until shes old enough to talkSo she can tell me if something happensbut she doesnt want to fight for full custody lest it become an expensive legal drama or, worse, a physical fight. Alone in the United States since her parents returned to her native India when she was a teenager, Sneha has just graduated from college into the Obama-era recession economy, moved to Milwaukee to work a dead-end job and is all alone. Thanks, a very great article. Every dollar helps when it comes to keeping this indie queer media site alive. Mathews writing is daring, sharp, and authoritative. Even the title has twin meanings. Its compassionate and rich and layered. 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