We're thrilled to announce that we're launching K Vaishali's memoir Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India, published by Yoda Press and Simon and Schuster on June 17 2023! She will be in conversation with author Nandita Bose.
The event will take place at Champaca, from 5 PM onwards. Please RSVP here.
Open to Bangalore only.
About the book:
After discovering she’s lesbian and dyslexic at 20, Vaishali begins to untangle her anxieties around reading and writing. She comes out to her mother at 22 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, homosexuality, and the clitoris; falling in love and recovering from a harrowing breakup; academic failure, loneliness, and homophobia; living with sickness, anxiety, depression, and her 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.