Ben Indra is an Indonesian-born Singaporean. He has lived outside of Indonesia for more than 20 years, 4 of which in Cork, the Republic of Ireland. He is a market researcher and an entrepreneur. An avid globe trotter and cultural observer, he has lived in 6 countries, and travelled to many more. He and his husband divide their time between Indonesia, Singapore and Ireland.
Hurricane Heaney is a fish-out-of-water memoir of a gay Indonesian man, Ben, who finds himself marrying into a salt-of-the-earth Irish family. Unlike many stories involving LGBTQ+ protagonists, this is not a tragic tale about a traumatic coming out, nor even about the novelty of living in a gay marr...