Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/crime/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0010 408648 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/crime/engine/rss.php:0 SJ Sindu - Free Library Land Online - Crime https://crime.library.land/ ru SJ Sindu - Free Library Land Online - Crime DataLife Engine Blue-Skinned Gods https://crime.library.land/sj-sindu/607509-blue-skinned_gods.html https://crime.library.land/sj-sindu/607509-blue-skinned_gods.html 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 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...]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:25:54 +0200 Marriage of a Thousand Lies https://crime.library.land/sj-sindu/429272-marriage_of_a_thousand_lies.html https://crime.library.land/sj-sindu/429272-marriage_of_a_thousand_lies.html Marriage of a Thousand Lies
​​A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel Marriage of a Thousand Lies offers a moving and sharply rendered​ exploration of friendship, family, love, and loss.
Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side. It's not ideal, but for Lucky, it seems to be working. She goes out dancing, she drinks a bit, she makes ends meet by doing digital art on commission. But when Lucky's grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her childhood home and unexpectedly reconnects with her former best friend and first lover, Nisha, who is preparing for her own arranged wedding with a man she's never met.
As the connection between the two women is rekindled, Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie. But does Nisha really want to be saved? And after...]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:46:43 +0200