Blue-Skinned Gods
Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu is a novel published by National Geographic Books on October 4, 2022. This 336-page work delves into themes of identity, faith, family, and sexuality through the story of a boy born with blue skin in Tamil Nadu, India. His father establishes an ashram, attracting pilgrims who believe the child, Kalki, is a divine incarnation. As Kalki faces trials meant to affirm his divine status, he begins to question his identity and the nature of his supposed powers.
Readers will find a narrative that spans continents, moving from India to the underground rock scene of New York City. The book examines the complexities of ethnic, gender, and sexual identities, reflecting on the unraveling of familial relationships over a decade. Blue-Skinned Gods offers an expansive exploration of belief in a globally interconnected world, inviting readers to engage with its visionary and metaphysical elements.
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From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality.
In 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 child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. 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. While he seems to pass them, Kalki begins to question his divinity.
Over the next decade, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on—father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin—starts falling apart. 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.
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