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In this debut novel, Kiran Sharma, a 12-year-old Indian-American living in suburban Cincinnati, doesn’t fit in with other Indian children or his classmates at school. He likes ballet and dolls and putting on his mom’s makeup in secret. One day he has a revelation: Maybe he is the reincarnation of the gender-bending Hindu god Krishna. Satyal is an editor at HarperCollins.