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Homeless: Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India Kindle Edition

by K. Vaishali (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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  1. Print length
    157 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publisher
    S&S India
  5. Publication date
    8 March 2023
  6. Reading age
    16 years and up
  7. Grade level
    9 and up
  8. File size
    680 KB
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    Enabled
  10. Word Wise
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BV1753XC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ S&S India (8 March 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 680 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 157 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 15

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K. Vaishali

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The author of the novella, Means to an End, and several short stories like ‘Hot off You’, and ‘Blow’, K. Vaishali has been published in the in Gertrude Press, Leicester Writes Prize Anthology, Sahitya Akademi’s Indian journal, Out of Print, and elsewhere. Her short fiction made the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2021 shortlist and the 2021 Disquiet International Literary prize longlist. With a Master’s degree in communication, she writes developer documentation for a tech company. When she is not writing, Vaishali watches classic films and enjoys world cinema.

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Tushar Marpaka
5.0 out of 5 stars essential queer reading of the season!
Reviewed in India on 21 April 2023
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"Being different in a society that is not very open to different."

Right from the title, the book grabs you and shows you with its super accessible language the reality of being a lesbian in a country where being that is not okay. You are less than human if you are a lesbian.

Being an adult is complicated. Add to that growing up with a learning 'disorder' that shows up in different places in different ways in quotidian existence, like telling left from right. Add to that being lesbian in a country that is less accommodating to lesbians, and you have got yourself in a tough tough position.

What's the way out of it? Writing of course. And write she does. She's raw. She's real. She doesn't mince words. She pours it all into this book, and you will want to devour it all in one sitting.

You also get to learn (and unlearn) about her struggles with dyslexia and how complicated that monster is, how difficult it is to access the meager government facilities, and how inaccessible the society is to people with this 'disorder'. It's time we as a society make ourselves aware of this 'disorder' and its various forms and recognize it in our young and tweak their learning according to their needs.

With where the country is now, this book places itself in an important position and becomes essential reading about lgbtq+ people, and dyslexic people.

This memoir can and will pull on your heart strings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A well written book
Reviewed in India on 17 May 2023
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I liked writing style of K.vaishali . I am impressed by her day to day observations.i like the survival instincts of the protagonist.
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