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

When she was seven, Rachel Manija Browns 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 Rachels 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, this astonishing debut memoirnow available in paperbacksignals the arrival of a major new literary talent. The hardcover edition was named a Book Sense Pick and was selected as aBook of the Week by BN.coms Book Club.Brown, Rachel Manija is the author of 'All the Fishes Come Home to Roost An American Misfit in India', published 2006 under ISBN 9781594865268 and ISBN 1594865264.