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Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s Portrait of Gay Indonesia
Books & the Arts
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December 28, 2023
In, Happy Stories, Mostly, a collection of short stories, the complexities of queer life in the Southeast Asian country come into focus.
(Photo by Jewel Samad / AFP via Getty Images)
Happy endings (or beginnings) don’t make for good fiction, as the Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu knows well. But Pasaribu doesn’t want to give readers sob stories either, especially about their chosen subject: queer life