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‘At once heart-wrenching and utterly unputdownable’ i
Vivaan, a teenager in India’s silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. Intoxicating, boundarybreaking 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 criminalizing homosexuality. And before that was Mambro’s uncle Sukumar, a young man hopelessly in love with another young man, but forced by social taboos to keep their relationship a secret at all costs. Sukumar would never live the life he yearned for, but his story would ignite and inspire his nephew and grand-nephew after him. Bold and bracing, intimate and heartbreaking, Deviants examines the histories we inherit and the legacies we leave behind. ‘So compulsive and wrenching it made me miss my tube stop more than once’ Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant Dark
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‘A compelling, astute and compassionate meditation on identity and the search to belong’ Financial Times
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‘Magnificent: funny, melancholic, sharply true’ James Cahill, author of The Violet Hour
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