At age 20, Vaishali learns she is dyslexic and gay, and she starts to work over her fears of reading and writing. At the age of 22, she comes out to her mother and departs from her Bombay home to forge her own path. She makes the most of the circumstance by writing a book on her experiences while living in a filthy, insect-infested, rent-free hostel room in Hyderabad. While exploring her dyslexia, homosexuality, and the clitoris, falling in love, and getting over a painful breakup, academic failure, loneliness, and homophobia, as well as living with illness, anxiety, and depression, as well as her caste, gender, and body, she discovers that the past has a way of catching up with her as she writes.? This is the story of Vaishali's relationship with her many truths and the truths of many young people in India.