Half Gods

A captivating debut. Precise | beautiful and bold.' - Junot Diaz Startlingly beautiful | Half Gods brings together the exiled | the disappeared | the seekers.Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic | the Mahabharata | we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of our world in surprising ways: following an act of violence | a baby girl is renamed after a Hindu goddess but raised as a Muslim; a lonely butcher from Angola finds solace in a family of refugees in New Jersey; a gentle entomologist | in Sri Lanka | discovers unexpected reserves of courage while searching for his missing son.By turns heartbreaking and fiercely inventive | Half Gods reveals with sharp clarity the ways that parents | children | and friends act as unknowing mirrors to each other | revealing in their all-too human weaknesses | hopes and sorrows a connection to the divine. 'These are wonderful stories | finely poised | beautifully written and brimming with a rare wisdom.' - Kanishk Tharoor