Kashmir Blues

Naia, looking for her birth family in India after the bizarre death of her parents in Southern California. Leon, photographer, who cannot resist a chance to put his life in danger, whether from dysentery or bullet wounds. Samaad, Kashmiri, fighting to save a piece of his homeland from destruction by the two countries on either side of it, and who may well be the enabler of Leon s self-destructive visions. For them, and for the reader, Kashmir Blues is an unexpected journey the atmospheric streets of Bombay and Delhi, the valley of flowers, guns, Shiva, carpets, sapphire mines, addiction, and, love and death.