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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 DarkThere is an epic confidence to Bhattacharyas writing Samira AhmedIts magnificent funny, melancholic, sharply true. The force of it crept up on me in a brilliantly subtle way James Cahill, author of Tiepolo BlueFROM 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 timesVivaan, a teenager in Indias 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 dont know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world. For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambros 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 colonialera law criminalising homosexuality. And before that was Mambros 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 grandnephew after him. Bold and bracing, intimate and heartbreaking, Deviants... Santanu Bhattacharya Deviants Paperback Book