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Deep Singh Blue A Novel Ranbir Singh Sidhu Books

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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Deep Singh Blue A Novel Ranbir Singh Sidhu Books Reviews

This book is the absolute opposite of remarkable.

Every single character is a terrible person.

The plot is awful.

The dialogue is even worse.

This book was atrocious.

2/10.

I wonder if I'm being generous.
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!
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.
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.