All This Could Be Different

From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about a young Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America At the start of Obama‘s second term, Sneha joins the ranks of new college grads jockeying for a foothold in the post-recession economy. When she lands a consulting job in perpetually up-and-coming Milwaukee, it becomes the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the check for her growing circle of friends, send money home to her parents in India, and dare to envision a stable future for herself. She even begins dating who she wants-women-and soon develops a crush on Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But then, as quickly as it came together, Sneha‘s life begins to fall apart. Her job and apartment are both suddenly and maddeningly in jeopardy, and closely-guarded secrets and buried traumas resurface, sending her spiraling into shame and isolation. When a chance encounter with Marina ignites an electric romance, it looks like salvation-if only they can overcome the lie that threatens to undo the trust they‘ve built. A novel of working lives, friendships, and self-discovery in flux, All This Could Be Different is a wry, intimate, and redemptive exploration of the freedom and fragility of youth, and what it means to devote oneself to others in search of a better world.