'An explosive, provoking examination of what we are forced to or choose to believe to be true.' - Booklist Remarkably moving in its explorations of faith, doubt, and what it might mean to be a charlatan.' - Kirkus Reviews Occasionally, though, she does slip into a slightly didactic tone when explaining Hindu practices.hese are minor quibbles for a novel that so admirably skates between insight and pathos, acuity, and poignancy. 'Throughout the book, Sindu's prose has a textured intricacy that never becomes florid. Sindu's stunning effort more than delivers on her initial promise.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) The imagery is vivid.and the slow-burn narrative by the end becomes incandescent. 'Sindu's marvelous coming-of-age story features a young healer in Tamil Nadu, believed to be an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, who eventually breaks away from his domineering father.

However, the fantastic background and trauma that that the main character goes through in being used as a false god are never fully realized in spite of the strength of Sindu's prose and her ability as a writer.' - Jennifer Hon Khalaf ' Blue Skinned Gods is an exploration of faith, family, and identity through an astonishing story about a boy who is brought up as the reincarnation of Vishnu under the controlling weight of his father. 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. Over the next decade, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on-father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin-starts falling apart. While he seems to pass them, Kalki begins to question his divinity.

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. 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 Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin.

From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality.

Blue-Skinned Gods by S.J. Sindu