Half Gods (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250214959)

A startlingly beautiful debut, Akil Kumarasamy's 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.

Author: Akil Kumarasamy
ISBN-10: 1250214955
ISBN-13: 9781250214959
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2019
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.80d