DEVIANTS

Compulsive and wrenching Bhattacharya has written the epic text for the South Asian queer community that the characters in this book long to find Sarvat Hasin author of The Giant Dark There is an epic confidence to Bhattacharya s writing Samira Ahmed It s magnificent funny melancholic sharply true The force of it crept up on me in a brilliantly subtle way James Cahill author of Tiepolo Blue FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF ONE SMALL VOICE a bold electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times Vivaan a teenager in India s silicon plateau has discovered love on his smartphone Intoxicating boundary breaking love His parents know he is gay and their support is something Vivaan can count on but they don t know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world For his uncle born thirty years earlier things were very different Mambro s life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time and in a country where the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial era law criminalising homosexuality And before that was Mambro s uncle Sukumar a young man hopelessly in love with another young man but forced by social taboos t