Book #37: Quarantine: Stories
I won this book from a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway, and it definitely wasn’t what I was expecting. Quarantine is a collection of nine short stories relating the lives of gay Indian-American men. It alternates between being set in America and being set in India.
The stories were all so good, and I found myself entranced by the characters over and over again. I wish that some of them had been made into longer stories. I was disappointed when I was not able to find out what happened to the characters: where their relationships led, whether their dreams came true.
While the stories were all distinct in their own right, they all focused on the same theme: what it is like to be gay in a culture where it is considered unacceptable. While dealing with their personal problems: cheating partners, open-relationships, and other relationship issues, the characters must also deal with familial pressures: taking care of sick grand-parents, becoming successful doing what is expected of them instead of what they want.
