330 Million Gods

In 330 Million Gods, ordinary lives become unforgettable. Written in lyrical, intimate prose, 330 Million Gods is a many-voiced work of fiction about the immense variety of a country too often reduced to a single story.

Across India, a schoolteacher waits for news from the Gulf; a Kathakali actor watches a green hero emerge in the mirror; a Sikh restaurant owner carries the memory of a burned Delhi kitchen; a young farmer sells part of his family's land for the promise of Canada. A librarian at Darbar Sahib catalogs what cannot be recovered. A puppeteer gives an old king a daughter. A woman repairs solar radios in the mountains. A child maps floodwater so her family will know where to stand.

These seventy-one stories move through cities, villages, coastlines, mountains, crowded markets, homes, temples, gurdwaras, cinemas, trains, and kitchens. They are haunted, funny, tender, and sometimes devastating-stories of faith, migration, caste, labor, family, disability, gender, memory, aspiration, and survival.

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