"By day, Poppy Stringer is a fashion influencer who crafts flawless lewks for her followers. By night, she steals corpses for the highest bidder. When flamboyant "King of Queer Rock" Eddie Michaels drops dead, Poppy is tasked with sneaking his body out of the Palm Springs medical examiner's office. When the routine snatch-and-grab goes spectacularly wrong, she finds herself trapped in a neon-soaked, blood-drenched nightmare, fighting for her life through a campy carnival of carnage across the California desert."
"In a divided, fast-changing India, Professor Rohit returns to Delhi University hoping for stability but quickly finds his life unraveling. He's still hung up on his friend Dhruv, but the feelings aren't returned. In an effort to move on, Rohit enters a relationship with Sayan, a bright, charismatic literature student. But as political tensions erupt into a student uprising on campus, everything becomes more complicated."
"Aruni Kashyap's novel is a moving, intimate story about queer love, identity, and hope in uncertain times."
A set of queer summer reading recommendations pairs high-camp, high-stakes storytelling with intimate relationship drama. One novel follows a fashion influencer who steals corpses for money, tasked with removing a dead “King of Queer Rock,” only for a routine job to turn into a neon-soaked, blood-drenched nightmare across the California desert. Another novel centers on a professor returning to Delhi University seeking stability, still hung up on an unreciprocated friend, then entering a relationship with a literature student. As political tensions escalate into a student uprising, queer love, identity, and hope become increasingly complicated.
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