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Blue Boy

Rakesh Satyal

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Mar 14, 2012 Shawn rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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The style is good, but Kiran is not at all believable. Perhaps if it had been told by an older Kiran looking back on his twelve-year-old self, I would have found it more realistic. But as it is, Kiran is at once remarkably knowledgeable about many things, yet almost incredibly naive for an American sixth grader, whether of Indian descent or not.

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Oct 14, 2010 Rick rated it it was amazing

Wonderful, poignant, and very funny gay coming-of-age story.

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Jun 01, 2010 Julia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya, magical-realism, contemporary-fiction, glbtq, best-books-i-read-in-2010

A first generation Indian Hindi boy living in an Ohio suburb, Kiran knows he’s very different from his American classmates and he is also very different from the Indians he goes to temple and parties with on the weekends.

Kiran is a sixth grader and he intends for the school talent show to do a tribute to Krishna. He will wear his mother’s blue eye shadow, has learned to play the recorder, will dance and sing and has designed a wild costume made from one of his mother’s saris all to a Whitney Ho ...more

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Sep 01, 2013 Jerry Delaney rated it liked it

Kiran doesn't fit in - at school because he Indian-American in a Cincinnati classroom; in the Indian-American community because he is effeminate. He struggles to be himself in a world that doesn't want to make that possible for him. But I think he's going to make it. ...more

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