{"product_id":"half-gods-9781250214959","title":"Half Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA startlingly beautiful debut, Akil Kumarasamy's \u003ci\u003eHalf Gods \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns heartbreaking and fiercely inventive, \u003ci\u003eHalf Gods\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkil Kumarasamy\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer from New Jersey. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, and has been a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the University of East Anglia. \u003ci\u003eHalf Gods\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544348791058,"sku":"9781250214959","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f923b32e-3b89-41f9-86f0-d07610863135.jpg?v=1731526896","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/half-gods-9781250214959","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}