Vivek Shraya. Arsenal Pulp (Consortium, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-55152-560-0
Multimedia artist Shraya’s playful debut novel mixes the story of a young, gay Indian-Canadian man in Edmonton with Hindu mythology. As a boy, the nameless protagonist was teased by his classmates and was a social liability to his few male friends....
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Vivek Shraya. Arsenal Pulp (Consortium, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $14.95 trade paper (118p) ISBN 978-1-55152-641-6
Shraya (She of the Mountains), a multidisciplinary Canadian artist, fashions an activist text in her debut poetry collection, one that is timely in its focus on identity (queer and racial), racism, colorism, the Black Lives Matter movement, and...
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Vivek Shraya, illus. by Juliana Neufeld. Arsenal Pulp (Consortium, dist.), $18.95 trade paper (92p) ISBN 978-1-55152-543-3
Hinduism and its institutions can heap shame on gay adolescents just as effectively as the Judeo-Christian world, Shraya's collection of short stories shows. Originally self-published in 2011, this terse, honest account of growing up gay in an East...
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Vivek Shraya, illus. by Rajni Perera. Arsenal Pulp (Consortium, dist.), $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-55152-668-3
A small boy asks his mother about her bindi, the dot Hindu women wear on their foreheads: “Above her nose is where it goes./ What is this dot? I want to know!” He looks up at her in the bathroom as she peers into the mirror to make sure it’s in the...
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Vivek Shraya. Penguin Books Canada, $16 (112p) ISBN 978-0-7352-3865-7
Musician and artist Shraya (I’m Afraid of Men) weaves savvy cultural criticism with raw personal reflections in this masterful investigation of reinvention. Even as change is acknowledged as inevitable, Shraya interrogates the negative connotations...
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