Sister India Tapa blanda - 2002

“Becoming an expatriate is like entering a witness protection program. You can flee into a new nationality, a new language, even take on a culturally correct new name, but you cannot completely pave over a life that came before. The protagonist of Sister India… is 400 pounds of enthralling proof. From the novel’s very first sentence, her ravaged voice grips the reader… Peggy Payne has created one of the more unsettling and mesmerizing characters in expatriate literature.” –The New York Times Book Review

“Payne captures an outsider’s sense of wonder.” –Boston Herald

“Like the city that inspired it, Sister India is complex, crowded, spiritual, blood-stained, and hypnotic.” –Wilmington Sunday Star-News

“A poetic invocation of contemporary India as well as of the human spirit. With its insights into clashing cultures, it deserves comparison as a modern version of E. M. Forster’s classic A Passage to India.” –Dan Wakefield, author of How Do We Know When It’s God?

“Sister India is that rarity, an utterly original novel. It is both profound and mesmerizing.” –Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace