About the Book: The Education of Yuri
'We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.
At fifteen,Yuri Fonseca of downmarket Mahim—sometimes awkward, sometimes
lonely—gets lucky. He finds a friend, Muzammil Merchant of upmarket Pedder
Road.Then he loses him, and almost finds him again. In between, he learns
something about jealousy, shame, desire and guilt. He stumbles into his first
sexual encounter, and he thinks he has fallen in love. He understands how one
can hurt and be hurt, and how one can give and find unexplained happiness. He
struggles to write poetry, worries if he will ever