Description
After discovering she’s lesbian and dyslexic at twenty, Vaishali begins to untangle her anxieties around reading and writing. She comes out to her mother at twenty-two and leaves her Bombay home to make her own way. In a dingy, insect-ridden yet rent-free hostel room in Hyderabad with a door that doesn’t quite close, she tries to make the best of the situation by writing a book about her experiences. As she writes, she finds the past has a way of catching up with her, even as she explores her dyslexia, her homosexuality, and the clitoris; falls in love and recovers from a harrowing breakup; faces academic failure, loneliness, and homophobia; and lives with sickness, anxiety, depression, and the realities of caste, gender, and body. This is the story of Vaishali's relationship with her many truths and the truths of many young people in India.