Description
As an only son, Kiran has obligations-to excel in his studies, find a nice Indian girl, and, make his mother and father proud. If only Kiran had anything in common with other Indian kids besides the colour of his skin. They reject him at every turn, and his cretinous American schoolmates are no better. Kiran’s not-so-well-kept secrets don’t endear him to any group. Playing with dolls; choosing ballet over basketball; taking the school’s annual talent show way too seriously… the very things that make Kiran who he is also make him the star of his own personal freak show… And then one fateful day, a revelation: perhaps his desires aren’t too earthly, but too divine. Perhaps the solution to the mystery of his existence has been before him since birth. For Kiran Sharma, a long, strange trip is about to begin-a journey so sublime, so ridiculous, and so painfully beautiful, that it can only lead to the truth…
About the Author
Rakesh Satyal is the author of the novel Blue Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award and the Prose/Poetry Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and which was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award. Satyal received a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and has twice been a Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. His second novel, No One Can Pronounce My Name, will be published by Picador USA in 2017.
