A clever book and a writer to watch out for: review of Aravind Jayan’s ‘Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors’
The HinduIn India, where families often describe themselves as “traditional yet modern”, sex talk is largely frowned upon. Aravind Jayan’s excellent new book, Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, focuses on one such episode. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors Aravind Jayan Hachette India ₹599 For their parents, India’s favourite preoccupation, ‘what will people say?’, haunts day and night. Jayan flits between the “thin air at home” and the “banter” and “joviality” at Sreenath’s new home, capturing the generational gaps in emotions and worldviews. When Sreenath calls Appa a homophobe, Jayan writes: “Appa thought this was some kind of a musical instrument, though he took it as an insult just the same.” When Anita’s mother, with an outlandish solution to the problem, stands at the doorway of Sreenath’s house and refuses to go away, his mother has no choice but to finally let her in after making a lame excuse.
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