But these images repeat and reappear with the cyclical rhythm of anxiety-driven thought. We experience their relationship through Tanay’s memories of frown lines, waking eyes, and rain-soaked skin. Tanay is gay and struggling to find peace with his desires in contemporary western India, and make sense of the enigmatic artist renting a room in his house. Through him, we experience a consuming emotional triad. Kundalkar opens one point of the love triangle by immersing us in the mind of the excerpt’s title character. But perhaps not to quite the same degree as Tanay, who narrates this excerpt from Sachin Kundalkar’s first novel, newly translated from the original Marathi. We have all felt a need for someone, and, in one way or another, we have all felt it necessary - essential, even - to keep that need hidden. This triangle would probably be a little bottom-heavy, with the weighty foundation of furtive anxiety, and desire stretching and sharpening the top. After reading, I was struck by another piercing triangle, one formed by the separate powers of yearning, secrecy, and insecurity. When Cobalt Blue first came across my desk, the summary mentioned a love triangle between a gay brother, a rebellious sister, and lodger in their home in India.
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