num_pages: 224
description: “The stories in Rahul Mehta's Quarantine amplify a surprising new voice: gentle, even tender, but powerful." —Pankaj Mishra, author of Butter Chicken in LudhianaReminiscent 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. Manil Suri, the New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva calls Quarantine “an insightful and compellingly readable collection of stories in which Rahul Mehta masterfully explores the emotions, the conflicts, the complex accommodations of being gay and Indian American."
language: English
title: Quarantine: Stories
publisher: Harper Perennial