India, July 4 -- At a literary event, when the narrator screams "Drown all the refugees", he means every word. After all, he is familiar with displacement. His boyfriend Abdul was Palestinian; his childhood best friend Pedro crossed into India illegally in search of a better life. Abdul is dead and Pedro's whereabouts are now a mystery. That is, until Maria, Pedro's mother and the narrator's childhood nurse, turns to the occult to connect with her son. The person she recovers is a husk of himself. What happened? A work of Gothic horror, with illustrations by Vikram Nayak, Drown All the Refugees is Khair at his finest. He rejects the reader's pity, the onlooker's distress, and asks instead for something more substantial, perhaps a reordering of a world in disarray....