BLUE BOY BY RAKESH SATYAL FREE DOWNLOAD

In fact, what the Dickens was this book all about? Blue Boy shows us a world too funny and sad and sweet to be based on anything but the truth. Kiran navigates being profoundly different in several ways: I don't think Kiran is gay, i think he is quite confused with his cultural norms conflicting with what he sees around him every day and does not feel comfortable talking to his pare I found it hard to read and relatively unenjoyable, as there is much description in this book that is completely unnecessary. Worth a close read, and you'll enjoy every minute of it! I have Satyal's latest work but eh, I'm in no rush to get to it now.

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It can be brash and wild when it wants to be, and yet there are those "Live to Tell" moments when it's calm and collected. The author graduated from Princeton's creative writing program, and some of the story is based in his own life and experience.

So, I pushed "Download to My Kindle" and didn't look back. I am blue, too.

I picked up the book as the back of it described an interesting character. This book hits on some pretty mature topics such as a preteen boy discovering voy sexuality and coming to the revelation he may not be like all the other boys his age.

There is very little showing of action, too much telling, and a lot of 80's references. Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko. Is that what you call it? Still, a good read. In some ways the book is an odd mix of satyzl at times it feels like a sweet, sassy young adult book, at other times it sits squarely in the adult gay fiction world. Worth a close read, and you'll enjoy every minute of it!

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To ask other readers questions about Blue Boyplease sign up. And while he is boyy with the skills to amuse himself in his solitariness, he also yearns for friendship, companionship, and understanding.

Kirtan narrates the story, but the voice is not particularly believable as that of even the most precocious, gifted twelve-year-old.

Also, in one uncommonly touching, deftly written scene, Satyal brings the homophobic father character center stage and—as he pours out his disappointment in his son—the reader actually feels some sympathy and understanding for him!

It's immensely appealing as a portrait of young adulthood, as an NRI story, and as a Bildungsroman. Perhaps the solution to the mystery of his existence has been before him since birth. I don't think Kiran is gay, i think he is quite confused with his cultural norms conflicting with what he sees around him every day and does not feel comfortable talking to his parents about his feelings.

It's also heartbreaking at times when Kiran is bullied and feels like his sexuality and gender expression make him unworthy of being part of society.

The book chronicles the life of twelve-year-old Kirtan as he struggles with his Indian-American identity, gender expression, and burgeoning sexuality. Nov 05, Amira Soltani added it. Through it all, Kiran never questions his own specialness. This book is also unflinching in its look at pre-adolescent sexuality, and Kiran's obsession with male and female bodies.

I love coming of age novels, and I was glad to find some cultural diversity here to dig into. He gets his revenge by being a tattletale on an adolescent Indian couple for making out which could have serious repercussions and alarmingly, setting a school room on boj others to take the blame.

Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal

Dec 31, Karen rated it it was amazing Recommended to Karen bleu Aug 29, Thomas Marzella rated it really liked it. Satyal gives us an idealistic, quixotic star of the show and a thoughtful, sweet yet heartbreaking story with Blue Boy. Kiran is your average boy They reject him at every turn, and his cretinous public schoolmates are no better.

Here, Satyal manag This book was, on so many levels, a surprise to me - and a delightful one at that. If only Kiran had anything in common with the other Indian kids besides the color of his skin.

Big for a young boy, but very mundane for an adult reader. In Blue Boy we see how one gay adolescent learns to accept his orientation and his ethnicity and even, in the end, feel triumphant for his trials and tribulations: Playing with dolls; choosing ballet over basketball; taking the annual talent show way too seriously…the very things that make Kiran who he is also make him the star of his own personal freak show….

There were also other heartbreaking bits: