Book

Kumarasamy, Akil, 1988- author.

Half gods / Akil Kumarasamy.

First edition.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

205 pages ; 22 cm

"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"--Amazon.com.

Families -- Fiction.

Short stories, American -- 21st century.

Short stories.

Short stories. Selections

Last prayer -- New world -- A story of happiness -- The office of missing persons -- When we were children -- Shade -- At the birthplace of sound -- Brown smurf -- The butcher -- Lifetime in flight.

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