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From the awardwinning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written globespanning novel about identity faith family and sexualityIn Tamil Nadu India a boy is born with blue skin His father sets up an ashram and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the childs blessings and miracles believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu In Kalkis 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 While he seems to pass them Kalki begins to question his divinity Over the next decade his family unravels and every relationship he relied onfather mother aunt uncle cousinstarts falling apart Traveling from India to the underground rock scene of New York City BlueSkinned 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 SJ Sindu has written another brilliant novel in BlueSkinned Gods This time she tells the story of a boy with blue skin who is trying to be the god everyone tells him he is Here is a novel about the bonds between brothers a deceptive tyrant and son a mother who doesnt know how to save herself or her child a boy and how he yearns for his young loves and so much more The richness of this story will take hold of you and never let goRoxane Gay