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By Susan Salter Reynolds
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
Rachel Manija Brown
Rodale: 352 pp., $23.95
WHEN Rachel Manija Brown was 7, her Baba-worshiping parents took her from Los Angeles (pet rats, pet toads, pet rabbits, goodbye!) to live on an ashram in Ahmednagar, India. Brown's mother, obsessed and fearful, believed that this was best for her child, who spent five years completely miserable in a school called Holy Wounds, run by British nuns, where she was punished and picked on by other students. When she was 12, her father left the "bizarro ashram," and Brown persuaded him to take her back to Southern California. She returned to India every summer until she was 17, then not again until she was in her mid-20s, when questions about her mother's and her own childhood demanded answers. "All the Fishes" is equal parts brave modern humor and bravely met sadness. No family ghosts will be banished by a mere 30-year-old wielding a pen.
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-reynolds25sep25,0,3872634.story?coll=cl-bookreview
This has the seemingly obligatory factual error (the nuns were Indian, not British) and I'm not sure what to make of the last sentence, but hey, generally positive mention in the "LA Times!"
By Susan Salter Reynolds
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
Rachel Manija Brown
Rodale: 352 pp., $23.95
WHEN Rachel Manija Brown was 7, her Baba-worshiping parents took her from Los Angeles (pet rats, pet toads, pet rabbits, goodbye!) to live on an ashram in Ahmednagar, India. Brown's mother, obsessed and fearful, believed that this was best for her child, who spent five years completely miserable in a school called Holy Wounds, run by British nuns, where she was punished and picked on by other students. When she was 12, her father left the "bizarro ashram," and Brown persuaded him to take her back to Southern California. She returned to India every summer until she was 17, then not again until she was in her mid-20s, when questions about her mother's and her own childhood demanded answers. "All the Fishes" is equal parts brave modern humor and bravely met sadness. No family ghosts will be banished by a mere 30-year-old wielding a pen.
http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk-reynolds25sep25,0,3872634.story?coll=cl-bookreview
This has the seemingly obligatory factual error (the nuns were Indian, not British) and I'm not sure what to make of the last sentence, but hey, generally positive mention in the "LA Times!"