num_pages: 512
description: Spanning India in the 70s to New Mexico in the 80s to Seattle in the 90s The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is a winning irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past.When brain surgeon Thomas Eapen decides to cut short a visit to his mother's home in India in 1979 he sets into motion a series of events that will forever haunt him and his wife Kamala; their intellectually precocious son Akhil; and their watchful daughter Amina. Now twenty years later in the heat of a New Mexican summer Thomas has begun having bizarre conversations with his dead relatives and it's up to Amina-a photographer in the midst of her own career crisis-to figure out what is really going on. But getting to the truth is far harder than it seems. From Thomas's unwillingness to talk to Kamala's Born Again convictions to run-ins with a hospital staff that seems to know much more than they let on Amina finds herself at the center of a mystery so thick with disasters that to make any headway at all she has to unravel the family's painful past.
language: English
title: The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
publisher: Random House