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Quarantine: Stories by Rahul Mehta
3.0
emotional reflective medium-paced

Unfortunately the majority of these stories have slipped my mind completely since finishing it in October and writing this review in December. However, I did make notes on three stories that stood out to me and that did jog my memory - a lot of these stories are of queer Indian men, living both in India and in America, but there is little intolerance which is always nice. My favourite story was one of a queer couple on holiday in India being shown around by a queer man, though they don’t realise it. It showcases the courage it takes to live as a queer person where it’s (or was, at the time, this was published in 2010) illegal.

Not a shining collection but not mad I picked it up either, as it’s always worth it to me to read about queer people of colour living a life without outright violence.