Full name: All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India

Author: Rachel Manija Brown Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Travel Culture: India Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781594865268 9781594861390 1594865264 1594861390

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--now available in paperback--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. Similar books: The Stardust Lounge by Deborah Digges No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey Half a Life by Darin Strauss What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden Love Life by Rob Lowe Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot Life in a Day by Doris Grumbach The Only Girl in the Car by Kathy Dobie The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield Fat Girl by Judith Moore A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam Sideways on a Scooter by Miranda Kennedy The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan My Life in France by Julia Child Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman