The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00KKNS2UM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 554 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Couldn't put it down, a page turner that evokes every emotion!! This book was phenomenal. If you are looking for a beautiful story filled with love, grief, loss, coming of age, tragedy, humor, history, romance and all the powerful emotions that haunt every family, Mira Jacob's "The Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing" is just what you are looking for. Don't let the length steer you away, it is a quick read. "and much better than I can" according to Jill Meyer. There's not much to say that the other five star reviewers of Mira Jacob's debut novel, "The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing", haven't already said, and much better than I can. I will say that I loved this book. Now, whether because I have always been interested in India, Indians, and Indian-Americans, or because it is beautifully written. This does not sound like a good hook to get you to read the Oh my. I don't even know where to start with this review. I guess I should start with this is really an exceptional story about a very dysfunctional family that is trying to find their way through life. This does not sound like a good hook to get you to read the story, but it is really far more than that. This story is very well written
Confronted by Thomas's unwillingness to explain himself, strange looks from the hospital staff, and a series of puzzling items buried in her mother's garden, Amina soon realizes that the only way she can help her father is by coming to terms with her family's painful past. At least that is the story his wife, Kamala, prone to exaggeration, tells their daughter, Amina, a photographer living in Seattle. For fans of J. Celebrated brain surgeon Thomas Eapen has been sitting on his porch, talking to dead relatives. Reluctantly, Amina returns home and finds a situation that is far more complicated than her mother let on, with roots in a trip the family, including Amina's rebellious brother Akhil, took to India 20 years earlier. With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted journey that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New Mexico to Seattle during the dot boom. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of hope, and the power of making peace with life's uncertainties. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Mona Simpson, and Jhumpa Lahiri comes a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past. In doing so, she must reckon with the ghosts that h