"A passionate account of the Beats at home and in the world. Baker
captures the range of their artistic and spiritual passions, as
well as their pettiness, their tantrums, their always difficult
loves. Her tenderness and finely tuned humor, as well as her ease
in both cultures, makes her a perfect recreator of this ornery band
of seekers. And of the ways in which India and the United States
have understood and misunderstood each other over the ages. A truly
vivid, wonderful book." -Kiran Desai, author of "The Inheritance of
Loss " "Sympathetic without being sycophantic, Deborah Baker has
made an important and vivid contribution to our understanding of
the Beats, both as phenomenon and as individuals. More broadly, "A
Blue Hand" is an original and entrancing account of how India
expanded the possibilities of western consciousness." --Geoff Dyer,
author of "Out of Sheer Rage" "A fabulous book - comic, tragic, and
written with great verve and nerve -about the Beats and their
'passage to I
"Sympathetic without being sycophantic, Deborah Baker has made an
important and vivid contribution to our understanding of the Beats,
both as phenomenon and as individuals. More broadly, "A Blue Hand"
is an original and entrancing account of how India expanded the
possibilities of western consciousness." --Geoff Dyer, author of
"Out of Sheer Rage"
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