The City of Devi: A Novel

by Manil Suri

Book, 2013

Publication

W. W. Norton & Company (2013), Edition: First Edition, 400 pages

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2014)
Bad Sex in Fiction Award (Winner — 2013)
Bisexual Book Award (Winner — Fiction — 2013)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender man) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Some characters (including the bisexual character) are Asian, Indian, Hindu. Others are Asian, Indian, Muslim.

Publisher's Summary: Mumbai has emptied under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation...yet Sarita can think of only one thing: buying the last pomegranate that remains in perhaps the entire city. She is convinced that the fruit holds the key to reuniting her with her physicist husband, Karun, who has been mysteriously missing for more than a fortnight. Searching for his own lover in the midst of this turmoil is Jaz... "The Jazter," as he calls himself, is Muslim, but his true religion has steadfastly been sex with men. Dodging danger at every step, both he and Sarita are inexorably drawn to Devi ma, the patron goddess who has reputedly appeared in person to save her city. What they find will alter their lives more fundamentally than any apocalypse to come.

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