'Compulsive and wrenching ... Bhattacharya has written the epic text for the South Asian queer
community that the characters in this book long to find' Sarvat Hasin author of The Giant
DarkFROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF ONE SMALL VOICE: 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 timesVivaan a teenager in India's 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 don't know what exactly their son gets up to
in the online world. For his uncle born thirty years earlier things were very different.
Mambro's life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time and in a country
where the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising
homosexuality. And before that was Mambro's 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. 'Bhattacharya's
storytelling talents are limitless' Nikesh Shukla praise for One Small VoiceA joy to read a
full universe of feeling ... A born storyteller' Max Porter praise for One Small Voice
