A review by nerdyprettythings
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

4.25

The characters in this one feel so real. Through a lot of the book I had to remind myself that it’s a novel rather than a memoir. Sneha is an immigrant and a lesbian, creating a found family and dealing with early online dating. She’s also very depressed a lot, which occasionally made it hard for me to want to pick this back up (complimentary). With a setting in 2007/08 and a fresh college graduate MC, this already feels like a period piece in 2025 - elder millennials coming of age during a recession, before most social media platforms and before Obergefell. But it’s also incredibly relevant, with things to say about community and queerness and racism, and a depressingly timely storyline about immigrants and the way powerful people abuse their work (like Elon’s “your papers depend on me” tactics).
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