" And now here she was, a week into the futuristic-sounding year 2000, starting her life over in the land of her birth. So much had changed since she had been here, and so little. India was as thoroughly, soaked-to-the-roots India as she remembered it, only with the addition, in certain quarters, of cell phones and the internet. "

― Katy Yocom , Three Ways to Disappear