Blue-Skinned Gods

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 10th human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s 10thyear 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.