All This Could Be Different

Sneha is a twenty-two-year-old Indian immigrant who graduates into the long recession and takes an entry-level corporate job in Milwaukee, the first person in her family to land such a foothold in America. She sends money to her parents back home, gets her college friend Thom hired alongside her, and slowly builds a chosen family around the fierce and generous Tig. She begins dating women and falls hard for Marina, a beguiling dancer who stays just out of reach. Mathews charts the wonder and the strenuous work of sustaining friendship, the heartbreak when trust fractures, and the tender, precarious project of making a home out of the people you choose.