Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

<b>Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of <i>Call Me By Your Name</i>.</b> <p/>Shyam Selvadurai's brilliant novels <i>Funny Boy</i> and <i>Cinnamon Gardens</i> have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel now with a new cover he explores first love with clarity humor and compassion. <p/>The setting is Sri Lanka 1980 and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life before when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his school's production of <i>Othello</i> and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky's tropical fish business. Then like an unexpected monsoon his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith's ordered life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. <i>Othello</i> with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.