She of the Mountains · Vivek Shraya (2025)

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She of the Mountains is a beautifully rendered illustrated novel that weaves a passionate, contemporary love story with a re-imagining of Hindu mythology. Both narratives explore the complex ways that we are formed and transformed by love, and show how the process of learning to love and be loved by another can ultimately—and sometimes painfully—bring us back to our selves.

Featuring illustrations by Raymond Biesinger.

Alberta bestseller

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The Hindu gods, with their constantly shifting personas and manifestations, add a clever and thoughtful layer to the novel and highlight the intricacies and power of a love that eclipses gender, time, and conventions. Strikingly illustrated by Raymond Biesinger, this is a lyrical ode to love in all its manyforms.

An experimental multimedia hymn about delving into one’s self, seeking love withoutlabels.

In a largely homogenous (white, straight) literary culture, books like Shraya’s are a blessing. There is the sense that what he achieves with She of the Mountains is so new, we don’t have the proper words to articulate its success. The ultimate hope is this work will pave the way for more of its ilk, and provide this country and culture with a robust look at identity and its inherentfluidity.

Vivek’s latest—and most beautiful—work is a truly remarkable, mesmerizing journey. I feel like I’ve uncovered a whole other side to him. One of the brightest new writing talents to come out ofCanada.

She of the Mountains weaves together a young man’s journey with Hindu mythology, creating a sophisticated and whimsical tale—a poignant capturing of the search for wholeness, whether on a human or superhumanlevel.

She of the Mountains is a treatise to epic love. Shraya’s prose is deft and lyrical, and shape-shifts like his characters’ bodies and desires—both otherworldly and human. This is a book that is full of heart, and mine sank and lifted with each turn of thepage.

She of the Mountains is a wonderfully textured book that knows better than to offer hasty answers about identity—rather Shraya draws us into a series of highly poetic and hyper-intimate scenes that allows us to feel and explore forourselves.

A forthright, honest, damned sexy book written, gleefully and counter-intuitively, in a lyrical, epic, transcendent style. It is not your typical debut novel, but rather one ripped apart at the spine and then reconfigured via alchemy, Tantric mysticism, the open verse of social media, and pure, raw talent. Sensual, smart (and smart-assed), She of the Mountains is the beginning of something big, bold, and—hold yourpurse!—glamorous.

Given the intersection of Vivek Shraya’s writing and his music up till now, it should come as no surprise that his newest book is an equally compelling fusion of stories, voices, and textures. She of the Mountains is a touching and transporting prose-poem that has a music all itsown.

A queer love story addressing the issue of bisexualerasure.

Epic is a good word, here, for the book reads like two long prose poems intertwined, two epics fashioned into a double helix… There’s plenty of music, beautiful and heartbreaking, in She of the Mountains, Shraya’s irresistible invitation to join the cosmicdance.

Vivek Shraya has so much soul, he can’t contain it in one genre. She of the Mountains, the new release from the Lambda Literary Award finalist, is part poetry, part novel, part short vignette—allbeautiful.

This is a book for readers who want to be taken on an artisticride.

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