'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 Dark
'There is an epic confidence to Bhattacharya's writing' Samira Ahmed 'It's magnificent : funny
melancholic sharply true. The force of it crept up on me in a brilliantly subtle way' James
Cahill author of Tiepolo Blue FROM 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 times Vivaan 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 Voice A joy to read a full universe of feeling ... A born storyteller' Max Porter
praise for One Small Voice
