Title: Shards of memory
First published: 1995
Description: A young man named Henry sits down with his grandmother, a genial lady still called Baby by everyone, in the Manhattan townhouse where he has lived all his life with her, to record the history of a spiritual movement that has woven itself into the fabric of their family's lives for four generations.

What unfolds is a mesmerizing family saga: the imperious great-grandmother Elsa and her husband, an Indian poet, whose marriage is as unconventional as the movement they help to found; Baby, their cheerfully pragmatic daughter, married to the aloof English diplomat Graeme; bemused and brooding Renata, Baby and Graeme's daughter, married to an idle dreamer; and finally Henry, Renata's son, who in many ways bears the legacy of all that has gone before.

Their lives - and that of the movement's elusive yet ineluctable founder, known only as the Master - intertwine, diverge, and collide with each other in a masterfully orchestrated story spanning the twentieth century and several continents.
Subjects: Fiction, Family, Family in fiction, Gurus in fiction, Gurus, India in fiction, East Indians, India, New York (N.Y.), London (England), East Indians in fiction, Families, New york (n.y.), fiction, London (england), fiction, India, fiction, Fiction, sagas
Places: London, England, India, New York, Foreign countries, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), London (England)
LC classification: PR9499.3.J5 S33 1995