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Deep Singh Blue: A Novel Paperback – March 29, 2016

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Deep Singh wants out — out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything and his brother, who hasn’t said a single word in over a year, suddenly turns to him one day and tells him to die.

So when Lily, a beautiful, older, and married, woman, shows him more than a flicker of attention, he falls heedlessly in love. It doesn’t help that Lily is an alcoholic, hates her husband, and doesn’t think much of herself, or her immigrant Chinese mom either. As Deep’s growing obsession with Lily begins to spin out of control, the rest of his life seems to mirror his desperation — culminating in his brother’s disappearance and an unfolding tragedy.

Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s debut takes us into the heart of another America, and into the lives of “the other Indians—the ones who don’t get talked about and whose stories don’t get written.” With a sharp, funny and unsentimental eye, Sidhu chronicles the devastating consequences of racism in eighties’ America and offers a portrait of a wildly dysfunctional family trying to gain a foothold in their adopted country.

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March 29, 2016
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5.4 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
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1939419689
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"Sidhu writes with keen wit and crafts every character with psychological texture, exploring the effects of racism as well as the desire to control a world spinning off its axis." — Kirkus Reviews

One of Library Journal's picks for Top Spring Indie Fiction:

"Swift, dense, and touching." —Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal

"I don't know which virtue of Deep Singh Blue to recommend: the love-hate letter to northern California; the rich portraiture of Deep Singh, his family, and his tempestuous girlfriend; the oh-no-did-he-just-do-that storytelling; or indeed the blue that informs the restless, cutting, tender intelligence of the book. Enjoy them all, weeping and laughing and gasping. — Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown and The Sleeping Father

“Hip, twisted, funny, and devastatingly tragic, Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s vision of growing up in eighties’ California sticks a knife in the back of the coming-of-age novel and artfully resurrects its corpse. Clear-eyed, sympathetic, unsentimental—this is razor-sharp writing that never flags, and a novel with as much cut as heart.” — Robert Marshall, author of A Separate Reality

"This is no picturesque coming of age. In an immigrant family and an adopted land both straitjacketed by denial and rage, it’s an open question—and a propulsive one—whether Deep Singh’s lashings out to save himself will lead to salvation or destruction. Deep Singh Blue is work of ferocious bravery, intelligence, and art. — Alex Shakar, author of Luminarium

“Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s Deep Singh Blue is a brutal and darkly comic story of a young man’s journey into adulthood. This is that rare bird: a genuinely moving tale of love, loss and madness—and of a family that however hard it tries, can’t possibly hold itself together. An extraordinary novel, and a thrilling ride into the future of American letters.” — Jakob Holder, author of Housebreaking and Bedtime Solos

"A haunting story about dislocation and its effect on children and women, Ranbir Sidhu's Deep Singh Blue exposes the brutal side of life in suburban America. In his measured, eloquent prose, he reminds us that no one comes unscathed. A counter narrative - the uprising of the Sikhs in the Indian Punjab and the massacre by the Indian Army of Sikh fighters - mirrors the struggle and survival of Deep's family in suburban California. A master story-teller, Ranbir has weaved an original and refreshing multi-layered narrative." — Moazzam Sheikh, author of Cafe Le Whore and Other Stories

“The Indian American narrator of Ranbir Singh Sidhu’s breathtaking debut, Deep Singh Blue, is troubled, unlikable, and out of control. In flawless, terse prose, Sidhu gives us the tale of a suffocating and often unhinged family, and leads us to the kind of authentic sympathy that only tragedy provides.” — Titi Nguyen, essayist, The New York Times, The Threepenny Review, and Ninth Letter

About the Author

Ranbir Singh Sidhu is the author of the story collection Good Indian Girls and is a winner of a Pushcart Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Deep Singh Blue is his first novel. He divides his time between the US, India, and Greece.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Unnamed Press (March 29, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1939419689
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939419682
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches

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Ranbir Sidhu is a Pushcart Prize-winning author who writes novels, essays and plays, takes photographs, and dreams of making movies. His first novel, Deep Singh Blue, was released in the US in March 2016 by Unnamed Press and in India by Fourth Estate/HarperCollins. A novella, Object Lessons (in 12 Sides w/Afterglow), was published in a limited edition by Run/Off Editions in late 2016.

He is the author of the story collection Good Indian Girls (which received a Kirkus starred review), the chapbook The Fabulary, and is a winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, among other awards. His essay, “The Indian Wedding that Exploded in Violence,” was selected as one of the Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen.

His stories have appeared in Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, The Byword, Fence, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, Other Voices, The Happy Hypocrite, The Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Barcelona Review, Word Riot and many other journals and anthologies. New stories recently appeared in Arcturus and Chicago Quarterly Review.

His essays and reviews appear in Vice, The Wire, The Towner, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Terrain, The Nation, Artnet, The Millions, and other publications, and his photography appears in Portland Review and F-Stop Magazine.

Born in London, he grew up in California and has worked as an archaeologist, book store clerk, projectionist, PR guy, communications trainer with the United Nations in Sri Lanka, assistant to the playwright Edward Albee, and, among many other jobs, once spent a year assisting Joanna Steichen, widow of the renowned photographer Edward Steichen, catalog her personal collection of photographs.

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Sonee Singh

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The book portrays a troubled teenager and conveys a less stereotypical Indian immigrant experience. It is about a family disconnected and how a troubled man tries to find his place. I appreciated the uniqueness of the story.

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Doug L

Moving Coming-of-Age, Immigrant Story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 19, 2016

Often wise and sad beyond his years, teen narrator Deep Singh primarily tells two overlapping stories: one of romantic love and the other of his troubled immigrant family. Deep falls in love with an older, married woman, who is abused, unhinged, and often mean. Meanwhile, his older brother Jag descends into a seeming psychosis, finding secret meanings in magazine clippings and finally falling into total silence. Deep’s parents refuse to acknowledge his brother’s illness, and are instead determined to find a suitable Sikh bride for him.

This harrowing book has the trappings of a coming-of-age novel, but Deep has no comfortable place at which to arrive. His uncle Gur dreams of a Sikh homeland, but key events unfold at the same time as the Indian government’s 1984 attack on the holiest Sikh site, the Golden Temple. Deep is estranged from his family and their faith, but finds no comfort in his California environs.

Deep attends a community college, not unlike the place where author Ranbir Sidhu and I took a writing class together in 1985. I’ve fumbled around with my writing since then, whereas Ranbir has won numerous awards including a Pushcart Prize. He writes challenging fiction—works that make imaginative and emotional demands of their readers. “Deep Singh Blue” makes such demands: it presents an often bleak and angry vision—but an authentic vision of life in diaspora.

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Catcher In the Rye in the California suburbs.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2016

I read Ranbir Sidhu's collection of short stories: Good Indian Girls - and loved each story - I was excited to read this book and I devoured it. It's set in small town America in the 80s and feels so real - I'm writing this review months after I read the book and the book still feels alive to me. I want honesty in a story and in characters. I want them to be flawed and complicated and frustrating to themselves. This book is incredibly real to me. It's alive with all of the frustration of youthful love and pain, hatred of self and the world and aching need to love and be loved without really understanding what that means. This book captures that hot, boring time of post adolescence- that quality of being lost in a dead end job in a dead end place - it's a quintessentially American novel- a modern Catcher In The Rye. I'd also compare it to Atticus Lish's Preparation For The Next Life. Only funnier. This is a story that understands itself and works hard to do so. It is a beautiful book.

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Eliza

Deep is an understatement

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2017

Deep Singh Blue is a page turner I fought hard not to devour in one sitting and instead, paced myself, relishing each page for as long as I could; the exquisitely crafted yet simple language speaks straight to the heart, the nuggets of wisdom throughout are philosophical and epiphanic, the insights into the human psyche are profound, the tragedy of a dysfunctional family and ridiculousness of teenage angst, all had me belly-laughing out loud one moment and blinking back tears with heart wrenching sadness the next moment.
A truly excellent book.
Thank you, Mr Sidhu! Please hurry up and write another one!

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