Sister India

Hailed by critics, this is a novel of fear and awakening, of culture and chaos, of violence and redemption... and of the mysterious Madame Natraja, an expatriate from South Carolina settled in the holy city of Varanasi near the banks of the Ganges River, and unprepared for the course her life is about to take.
"[An] unblinkered, unsentimental but nonetheless affectionate portrait of India...an accomplished work by a writer with a keen sense of the precariousness of our lives." ("The New York Times")