Funny Boy

Description:

Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own different identity.

subjects: Fiction,  Gay men,  Young men,  Literature,  Fiction, general,  Gay men, fiction,  Sri lanka, fiction,  Domestic fiction,  Gay,  Fiction - General,  Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General,  Audio Adult: Books On Tape,  Literary,  LGBTQ novels,  Stonewall Book Awards,  Lambda Literary Awards,  Lambda Literary Award Winner,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, gay,  Fiction, lgbtq+, gay

Places: Sri Lanka