Annotations - An MM Romance

di Tawan Gray (Autore)

WMC Publishing, 2025

Arjun Kapoor has built his life around silence. As an archivist at a Mumbai preservation library, he catalogs other people's stories while keeping his own carefully hidden. Then he discovers a box of letters—annotated correspondence between two men during the 1970s Emergency, written in metaphor and longing, never sent. When Noel Lavigne arrives to research queer resistance movements in South Asian art, Arjun reluctantly shares the letters. Noel is everything Arjun isn't: confident, open about his queerness, comfortable in his own skin. As they work together to decode the hidden meanings in decades-old correspondence, their professional collaboration becomes something neither expected. The letters speak of love conducted through careful language, of desire hidden in references to gardens and weather and paintings with wrong skies. And as Arjun reads about men who could only express their truth on paper, he realizes he's been living the same way—coding his feelings, avoiding conversations, building his entire life to hide who he is. Noel sees through Arjun's silences. Reads between his carefully chosen words. Makes him feel safe enough to stop hiding. Over chai on rooftops and quiet afternoons in the archive, Arjun begins to imagine a different life. One where he doesn't have to live in the margins. Where he can reach out instead of pulling back. Where love doesn't have to remain unsent. But stepping out of silence means risking everything he's built to protect himself. It means trusting someone to stay. It means finding the courage that the letter-writers never could—to speak plainly, to live openly, to finish what they started. Annotations is a literary MM romance about an archivist and a researcher who discover that sometimes the most important letters are the ones we write to each other. Featuring first-person narration, a Mumbai setting, historical queer archives, emotional depth, and a tender romance that proves love can find its voice even when history demands silence.

• Autore: Tawan Gray
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: WMC Publishing
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232780579