All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Asian travel and geography
Automated braille
Summary
When she was seven Rachel Manija Brown s parents post-60s hippies uprooted her from her native California and moved to an ashram in a cobra-ridden drought-stricken spot in India Cavorting through these pages are some… wonderfully eccentric characters the ashram head Meher Baba best known as the guru to Pete Townshend of The Who the librarian who grunts and howls nightly outside Rachel s window a holy madman who shuffles about collecting invisible objects a middle-aged male virgin who begs Rachel to critique his epic spiritual poems and a delusional Russian who arrives at the ashram proclaiming he is Meher Baba reincarnated Astutely observed and laugh-out-loud funny All the Fishes Come Home to Roost is an astonishing debut memoir and the arrival of a major new literary talent The hardcover edition was named a Book Sense Pick and was selected as a Book of the Week by BN com s Book Club