All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

 

An hourly rate of $23 at a consulting firm. A rent-paid apartment in Milwaukee. Sneha knows that this is the best job she’s going to find in the heat of the Great Recession. After her Indian parents had to leave the United States in ignominy, Sneha bears the responsibility of doing right by them and can’t afford to be picky. As she falls in love with a charismatic young woman, struggles with coming out to her conservative parents, and navigates the edge of bankruptcy, Sneha finds comfort in friends who are themselves barely making it in the gig economy. A+