Quarantine: Stories, Rahul Mehta

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Quarantine
by Rahul Mehta
Paperback | May 31, 2011

Quarantine is a lyrical and emotionally resonant debut short story collection exploring the inner lives of Indian-American gay men navigating family, culture, love, and belonging.

Set among characters who are at once cosmopolitan and deeply tethered to tradition, these stories examine the quiet tensions between desire and duty, intimacy and distance. Mehta’s protagonists are shaped by Western ideas of independence and sexual freedom, yet remain bound to parents and communities whose expectations are rooted in old-country values. Caught between worlds, they grapple with acceptance, loneliness, humor, longing, and the cost of listening to their hearts.

With prose that is at turns incisive, tender, and quietly devastating, Mehta illuminates how cultural estrangement can exist even within families that love deeply. The result is a collection that speaks not only to queer South Asian experience, but to the universal search for selfhood and connection.

Often compared to the work of Jhumpa Lahiri and Michael Cunningham, Quarantine stands as a vital early contribution to contemporary LGBTQ literature and South Asian American fiction.

This title is a remainder, offered at half the original cover price. Remainder copies are new and unread, but may show minor shelf wear.