Da

A tender, bitter-sweet coming of age for readers of Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi

This is a story of love between a father and a son.

13-year-old Ved is a sweet, inquisitive boy living in a world where love must hide in plain sight.

His adoptive father, Da, is his entire universe — fiercely loving, fiercely protective, harbouring a secret that could destroy them both: Da is gay at a time when Section 377 makes homosexuality a crime.

Set in an Indian metropolis in 2013, Da is a tender story of a boy caught between devotion and fear, chronicling the everyday courage it takes to love someone the world refuses to accept.