Blue Boy

(Kensington)

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.