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“Poignant and sharply original… a believably flawed protagonist readers will genuinely root for… a delight of a read.”
—Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★★
Growing up in a California commune, Micah Connerly was steeped in mantras, mysticism…and lies.
After a drunken confession exposes a family secret, 32-year-old Micah hawked everything but his Harley to scour India for the guru stepfather who abandoned him, taking the truth with him.
When a chance accident binds him to a dying stranger, Micah volunteers at a Varanasi hospice with three others, each fleeing a secret past. Searching ashrams, backstreets, and burning ghats for the man who raised and betrayed him plunges Micah into a world where devotion, deception, and desire blur, forcing him to confront the darkest corners of faith—and himself.
Each clue peels back another illusion, until he’s caught between the man he was, the truth he fears, and a love he never saw coming.
When the answer he seeks comes with a threat against the volunteers’ lives, can Micah find the truth without jeopardizing everyone’s future, including his own?
Lush, tense, and transformative, God in Drag is a pilgrimage through longing, betrayal, and the grace that awaits when every mask is ripped away.
God in Drag is a spiritually charged literary novel set in India about identity, illusion, grief, and the search for what remains when the life you thought you understood falls apart.
If you’re drawn to soulful fiction, deeper questions, and stories that stay with you, I’d love to send you two things:
Chapter One of God in Drag
The opening of the novel that begins Micah’s journey through Varanasi, spiritual tension, and the unraveling of everything he thought he knew.
A Subscriber-Only Essay
India, Illusion, and the Questions That Became God in Drag
A personal reflection on India, hospice work in Calcutta, spiritual complexity, and why fiction became the truest way to explore these questions.
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The second was that we choose our illusions. Raj’s was being born Indian and Hindu, but living for a time as resident guru of the Berkeley commune where I grew up. Mine, he’d said, was living in the Eden of that same commune, blissfully unaware of how the disparity between Eden and the ordinary world can suck dry a life and leave a person ravenous for something—anything—of substance. That nugget made no sense to my ten-year-old self, but it wouldn’t have with Raj’s protective aura enveloping me in its golden glow. I sure got it now, the desertification of my life testament to its truth.
The third he whispered when we were alone.
“You are wise beyond your years,” he’d said in the same voice he used when revealing the hidden lessons beneath the parables he told at the commune.
I swallowed the bait whole because he never joked with that tone. I knew that even if I didn’t understand it, Raj believed it, and so should I.
It remained our secret until I blurted it to my mom one day, part of my defense as the ringleader of pint-sized paratroopers who used the clean sheets off the clothesline to slow our jump from the barn window to the soft pile of hay below.
When I said it, Mom tensed. She threaded her fingers through a necklace Raj had given her and clacked the beads together, studying me.
“Well, you’re a wise guy beyond your years for sure,” she’d said once she found her breath.
The next week, Raj was gone…
“…a wondrously evocative novel, rich in mysticism and psychological drama. Vivid, well-written, and featuring a clever, twisting story driven by intriguing characters who capture the reader’s attention, God in Drag is a mesmerizingly good read.” ~The Book Review Directory★★★★★
“A travel novel that positively shines with humanity… poignant and sharply original… a believably flawed protagonist readers will genuinely root for… a heady masterwork of literary fiction.” —Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★★
God in Drag is a spiritually charged literary novel set in India about identity, illusion, grief, and the search for what remains when the life you thought you understood falls apart.
If you’re drawn to soulful fiction, deeper questions, and stories that stay with you, I’d love to send you two things:
Chapter One of God in Drag
The opening of the novel that begins Micah’s journey through Varanasi, spiritual tension, and the unraveling of everything he thought he knew.
A Subscriber-Only Essay
India, Illusion, and the Questions That Became God in Drag
A personal reflection on India, hospice work in Calcutta, spiritual complexity, and why fiction became the truest way to explore these questions.