Book Cover of the Month: May

I love the happy colors of this book cover. The book is about the Mehra family in Mumbai but it is not a happy story. The main character is in the closet over his sexual orientation and has always been unhappy. The yellow and orange are good for depicting India fiction but The Other Man is not your typical Indian novel. In fact, I didn't like the book at all. It's about Ved Mehra who is still unmarried at age 38. He finally agrees to an arranged marriage with Disha Kapoor and their friendship blossoms during the wedding preparations. Soon thereafter Ved meets Carlos Silva and falls in love. The question posed by the author is whether or not Ved can come out of the closet.