Quarantine

By Rahul Mehta

Subjects: FICTION / General, Gay men, Fiction, general, LGBTQ short stories, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, East Indian Americans, Fiction, Gay men, fiction

Description: 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.