Deviants : The Queer Family Chronicles – Hardback

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 Indias 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 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 when, and in a country where, the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality.

And before Mambro came his 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.