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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

by Shyam Selvadurai
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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 Call Me By Your Name.
Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion.
 
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 Othello 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. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.
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Publisher: Tundra
Awards:

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781551997209
  • Release date: December 4, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781551997209
  • File size: 2228 KB
  • Release date: December 4, 2012

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.8
Lexile® Measure:890
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:4-5

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 Call Me By Your Name.
Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion.
 
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 Othello 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. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.
Expand title description text
Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Tundra

    Awards:

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781551997209
    Release date: December 4, 2012

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781551997209
    File size: 2228 KB
    Release date: December 4, 2012

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 5.8
    Lexile® Measure: 890
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 4-5
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