Quarantine

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Author: Rahul Mehta
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Quarantine by Mehta, Rahul

Quarantine

$39.60

Quarantine

$39.60
Author: Rahul Mehta
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"An extraordinary book that transcends gender and race and culture and sexual identity to speak to our universal humanity and the quest we all share for a self." -- Robert Olen Butler

Reminiscent of Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and the work of Michael Cunningham, Rahul Mehta's debut short story collection is an emotionally arresting exploration of the lives of Indian-American gay men and their families.

With buoyant humor and incisive, cunning prose, Mehta sets off into uncharted literary territory. The characters in Quarantine are Westernized in some ways, with cosmopolitan views on friendship and sex, while struggling to maintain relationships with their families and cultural traditions. Grappling with the issues that concern all gay men--social acceptance, the right to pursue happiness, and the heavy toll of listening to their hearts and bodies--they confront an elder generation's attachment to old-country ways. Estranged from their cultural in-group and still set apart from larger society, the young men in these lyrical, provocative, emotionally wrenching, yet frequently funny stories find themselves quarantined.



Author: Rahul Mehta
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/31/2011
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.35w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780062020451


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner
Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/14/2011
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2011
Booklist 05/01/2011 pg. 67

About the Author
Mehta, Rahul: -

Rahul Mehta's debut short story collection, Quarantine, won a Lambda Literary Award and the Asian American Literary Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, the Sun, New Stories from the South, the New York Times Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, Marie Claire India, and other publications. An Out magazine "Out 100" honoree, he lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their dog, and teaches creative writing at the University of the Arts.

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