num_pages: 352
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
titlecomplete: All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
genres: Biography, Memoir, India, Autobiography, Coming Of Age, Asia, Biography Memoir, Travel, Humor, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 796
publisher: Rodale Books