Sindu is a phenomenal writer and Blue-Skinned Gods is a treasure.' The prose is lush and stunning, the narrative wildly gripping. It is a true joy to encounter a book so beautifully written. I was enraptured by the careful twining of these lives: a manipulative father, a mother who loves her son to the point of agony, the joy and despair of tender first love, the pressure of knowing your destiny and the devastation of losing everything at once. Sindu has created a cast of characters so compelling it was difficult to set the book down. ' Blue-Skinned Gods is a marvel of a novel. Brandon Hobson, author of Where the Dead Sit Talking and The Removed A coming-of-age story wielding philosophical, historical, and emotional moments full of passion, vividly described, Blue-Skinned Gods is one of the most original and beautiful novels I've read in a long time.' 'Sj Sindu has given us a true gift in Kalki Sami and his journey. The richness of this story will take hold of you and never let go.' Here is a novel about the bonds between brothers, a deceptive tyrant and son, a mother who doesn't know how to save herself or her child, a boy and how he yearns for his young loves, and so much more. This time, she tells the story of a boy with blue skin who is trying to be the god everyone tells him he is. 'SJ Sindu has written another brilliant novel in Blue-Skinned Gods. Traveling from India to the underground rock scene of New York City, Blue-Skinned Gods explores ethnic, gender, and sexual identities, and spans continents and faiths, in an expansive and heartfelt look at the need for belief in our globally interconnected world. Over the next decade, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on-father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin-starts falling apart.

While he seems to pass them, Kalki begins to question his divinity. In Kalki's tenth year, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child's blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin.

Description From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality.

Blue-Skinned Gods by S.J. Sindu