The Sound of Blue
A heartfelt and hopeful journey of three strangers who find refuge through music and each other during the Balkan War of the early 1990s.
"Holly Payne's greatest achievement in 'The Sound of Blue' is to move the story beyond the never-ending volleys of who-did-what-to-whom into a realm where the only thing that really matters is not whether her characters are Serb or Croat but that they are refugees."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Here is a courageous, compassionate new voice filled with elegant and assured prose. Payne is a masterful storyteller who proves again to tackle ambitious subject matter with great delicacy."
−Ishmael Reed, winner of the McCarthy Genius Award
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