A queer writer can’t escape the sting of his family’s rejection, even by travelling to India

＂I am leaving for the winter - I have to get away from this small town and all its dangers - first to France and then to India, to write, read, think, all the most important things in the world but which are thought the least important, the most expendable.＂

Thus begins the Indian winter of our narrator, a queer writer and translator much like the author, a winter that includes a meandering journey to France and India on a book tour as he flees his faltering relationship in search of new friendships and intimacies. Inspired by Antonio Tabucchi’s Indian Nocture, and by the writings of Anaïs Nin, Rachel Cusk, and Carole Maso, among others, Indian Winter finds itself where the travel diary, the kunstlerroman, poetry, and autofiction meet. But the heartbreak brought on by his unravelling relationship and his family’s inability to accept his queerness cannot be outrun; as he traverses India, our narrator can’t help but to repeatedly encounter himself and the range of love and alienation he has within.