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    Sarah Thankam Mathews Wants to Remake the World

    by Anson Tong Aug 11, 2023 4 minutes

    Sarah Thankam Mathews’s debut novel, All This Could Be Different, is a bildungsroman about a queer, South Asian immigrant protagonist named Sneha who wants “to say something about love, which for many of us is not separable from the other shit.”

    Mathews effectively captures the malaise and melodrama of zigzagging through your early twenties. The novel’s young characters are barely able to comprehend the nature of their own jobs, eager to envision a model of communal living, and stumbling through the false starts and uncertainties that come with romantic relationships.

    I talked with Matthews about visions of collectivity,, which was just released in paperback.

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