Sati (book)
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Sati is the name of a fantasy novel by Christopher Pike. It was first published in September 1990.
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Michael is a trucker who picks up a blonde, blue-eyed, young female hitchhiker named Sati in the Arizona desert. Sati claims that she is God, to Michael's disbelief, and sets out to prove this by spreading this message through organised meetings, and convinces many people of her divinity. She is challenged numerous times, once by a fundamentalist preacher, but emerges unscathed in her claims. Meanwhile, Michael sets out to find out where this "Sati" came from, only to find nothing. Sati is killed later in the book, by one of Michael's friends, who misinterpreted a statement she made that she could "nearly" drink poison and live, and poisoned her.
Like many other books written by Pike, this book is clearly influenced by Hindu mythology as well as modern day Hinduism and Buddhism, as shown in Sati's philosophy and persona which is a mixture of these beliefs.
Interestingly, there are many similarities between the character Sati and the similarly-named Sita from Pike's The Last Vampire series written later: both are blonde, blue-eyed young females with supernatural powers, and have beliefs similar to those of Hinduism (Sita practises Hinduism).
