Quarantine
Rahul Mehta
HarperCollins
<p>"Thestories in Rahul Mehta's Quarantineamplify a surprising new voice: gentle, even tender, but powerful." &#8212;Pankaj Mishra, author of Butter Chicken inLudhiana<p>Reminiscentof Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreterof Maladies and the work of Michael Cunningham, Rahul Mehta's debut shortstory collection is an emotionally arresting exploration of the lives ofIndian-American gay men and their families. Manil Suri, the New YorkTimes bestselling author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age ofShiva calls Quarantine "an insightful andcompellingly readable collection of stories in which Rahul Mehta masterfullyexplores the emotions, the conflicts, the complex accommodations of being gayand Indian American."</p></p>