Drôle de garçon

By Shyam Selvadurai

Subjects: Gay men, Domestic fiction, Gay, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Stonewall Book Awards, Fiction, gay, Literary, Young men, Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, LGBTQ novels, Lambda Literary Awards, Gay men, fiction, Sri lanka, fiction, Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General, Literature, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Audio Adult: Books On Tape

Description: Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own different identity.