THEY WHISPER IN MY BLOOD

<p>Have you ever made a split-second decision that changed the course of your life? When at one fell swoop your world glided from one side of a thin veil that was happiness to the other? <strong>Nineteen-year-old honey-eyed Perpetua (Pippa)a tragic heartbreakingly beautiful Luso-Indian</strong> had to do just that and it takes her almost four decades to discover that she was not the decisionmaker after all - someone <strong>centuries ago</strong> made that decision for her. Can she reach across space and time and rent that veil? <strong>Is it too late</strong>? Can she ever be happy? Fulfilled?</p><p><br></p><p><em>They Whisper in my Blood </em>is a moving <strong>love story</strong> a sweeping tale a panorama of a Portuguese-Indian family's history told through a poignant refrain that is this clan's nemesis. It screams across time and continents. There's <strong>murder girl-child trafficking a torrid mixed-race affair and homophobia</strong> all of which beget intrigue sensuousness heartache . . . but always hope. <strong>The characters - visceral impassioned and deeply flawed</strong> - stay with you long after the last page is turned.</p><p><br></p><p>Fans of authors like <strong>Arundhati Roy Delia Owens and Richard Powers</strong> will love this multi-generational story. Nature's spontaneous beauty is reverenced in sentences that weave lush imagery; sentences that resound with <strong>stunning prose </strong>crafted seemingly by a poet. Sculpted with as bold a hand is the<strong> plot</strong> which <strong>delivers one hell of a punch</strong>. Combining the literary pizzaz of <strong><em>A passage to India</em></strong><em> </em>the cultural nuances of characters found in novels like <strong><em>The God of Small Things </em>and <em>The Joy Luck Club</em></strong><em> </em>the poignancy of <strong><em>The Bridges of Madison County</em></strong><em> </em>the wondrously inspirational life-affirming plot of <strong><em>A Long Way Home</em></strong><em> They Whisper in My Blood</em> captures the deep essence of the struggles endured by those of us<strong> who are mangled by tradition prejudices and superstitions and snobbery. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Foreword contributed by Amitabh Bachchan</strong></p>