Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

It’s more than just a new car. For Appa and Amma, the Indian nuclear family, the white Honda Civic - “White is good. It looks clean” - symbolizes their rise. Middle class, the reward for hard work, their children will have a better life. Of course, the neighbors should see it! But Sreenath, their eldest, is acting strangely, not even coming down to the driveway, and soon enough they and their youngest know: A video has surfaced, one of Sreenath and his girlfriend, on one of those sites. They have been a couple for years, yet this secretly filmed video brings about an unheard-of shame, and a remarkable escalation begins...

“Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors” is a biting generational novel from India. Aravind Jayan narrates with the ease of youth about shame, repression, and tradition in the face of class, sex, and the internet. And yet he tenderly describes a home that continuously struggles with its own modernization.