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    "title": "Swimming in the Monsoon Sea",
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    "description": "<p>Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By Your Name. Shyam Selvadurai&rsquo;s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first young adult novel, now with a new cover, he explores first love with clarity, humor and compassion. The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life &ldquo;before,&rdquo; when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith&rsquo;s holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his school&rsquo;s production of Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky&rsquo;s tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith&rsquo;s ordered life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.</p>",
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