The Sea Elephants

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For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who flees his father's threats to send him to a conversion center by joining a street theater troupe Shagun knows he will never be the son his father hoped for. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn't find true belonging until he encounters a traveling theater troupe performing the Hindu myths of his childhood.Taken on as an apprentice, Shagun thrives, able to easily embody mortals and gods, men and women, and to live on the road, where his father can't catch him. When Shagun meets Marc, a charming photographer, he seems to have found the love he always longed for, too. But even Marc can't rid him of his lingering guilt, nor of his father's ever-present threat: that he has found a way to make Shagun a real man, once and for all. As Shagun's past begins to engulf him once again, he must decide if he is strong enough to face what he has most feared, and to boldly claim his own happiness.Utterly immersive and spellbinding, The Sea Elephants is both dark and beautiful, harrowing and triumphant. An ode to the redemptive joys of art, Shastri Akella's debut novel is a celebration of hard-won love, of others and of ourselves.