The Saint of Bright Doors

Okay so I just finished this book that was fabulous it's called the saint of bright doors by Sri Lankan writer Vajra Trandra Sekara and it's a fantasy book I'm a big sci-fi fantasy junkie and I had read about it in the New York Times that the reviewer gave it a glowing review and it is one of the strangest most magical challenging transporting books that I have read in ages it's it's so unique it's so steeped in a kind of mythical South Asian view of the world yet it's intensely modern and so it's about this character Federer the protagonist who in the first page as soon as he's born his mother Garrett's his shadow and strangles his shadow and he has no shadow and and he's so he's in this sort of mythical magical space where there are devil doctors and and he goes to the big city and ends up in these weird Kafka scenarios and it's a lot about administration and the mystery of these these doors that appear in these walls and know that no one understands and he just and there's a whole scientific crew to sit and watch the door because when you look away you watch these things that are going to potentially become bright doors and as soon as you look away then suddenly there's a new door there and it's just it's so wild but it's like this overlay of the mythic and the and the modern and what I love about this book and just the larger you know genre fiction is changing it's been living in these kind of little ghettos with like a few experts and and now it's just like the especially science fiction and fantasy it's the amount of lgtbq voices and people of color and like there's so much energy and enrichment and invigoration happening and I cannot get enough of it and and it's happening across and everywhere but it's really happening in the science fiction and fantasy worlds and I just so appreciate this writer and there's like a name another dozen writers I love and that are doing really interesting things in that space but I thought I'd throw that one out there.