All the Fishes Come Home to Roost
When I was seven years old, my post-hippie parents joined an ashram, or spiritual commune, in a cobra-ridden, drought-stricken, backwater town in India. The ashram was devoted to Meher Baba, best known for having been Pete Townshend’s guru, for having kept a lifelong vow of silence, and for the slogan “Don’t worry, be happy.” I was the only foreign child within a hundred mile radius.
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost is the true story of my childhood.
– Rachel Manija Brown
Purchase All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India from Amazon.com
Reviews:
“Horrific childhood: check. Searing, indelible prose: check. Comparisons to Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors: check (and they’re richly deserved.)…Grade A”
– Entertainment Weekly
“One of Fall’s most promising memoirs”
– USA Today
“Rachel Manija Brown’s memoir of growing up as the involuntary youngest resident of a backwater Indian ashram populated by hippies, fanatics, and the clinically insane made me laugh so hard my face hurt…even when it was breaking my heart.”
–Hanne Blank, author of Unruly Appetites and Virgin: The Untouched History
Read the first chapter for free: http://images.rodale.com/wcpe/USRodaleStore/pdf/fishes_roost/1594861390CHP.pdf
Link to my website, which has author’s notes and all the reviews: http://www.rachelmanijabrown.com/
