India, Oct. 25 -- Originally published in the US in 2023, this is the moving coming-of-age story of Ru (Reuel George) who stood out at St Lorenzo School of Boys in Calcutta because of his unusual name, his Chinese-Naga looks, and his inability to conform to an ethnicity or religion. His classmates called him "the snake from nowhere".

Ru's parents find it difficult to dodge their son's questions regarding their identity, or comprehend the impossibility of him being a nobody in a world stamped with ethnicities and religions. Their answer - that the Georges were "nomads" - did not help much. Ru continues to be a boy from "nowhere".

His mother tells him to remember that he is an "Indian"; his father, a one-time novelist with an impressive c...