When I started listening to this book I did not know that I was in the mood for a family drama. It was the perfect book at the perfect time for me. I owned this audiobook since March (when it came out in Germany) but I had never been too interested in it. This book is about the story of an Indian ...
I picked this book on NetGalley because the idea of a family that traveled from India to settle in New Mexico (and then Seattle) just seemed like it had to be interesting — all interesting places, not very often mentioned together. I was especially drawn to a work that was considered perfect for fan...
In The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing: A Novel by Mira Jacob, we meet the Eapen family who left India in search of a better life. We meet them at three crucial junctures in their lives, each one revealing the pull of “home,” the need of each person to seek their own identify, and the tensions in the...
I don't remember what I was thinking when I requested an advanced reader's copy of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing. I know when it showed up in the mail, however, I was wondering why I had wanted this book in the first place. The premise and the cover no longer enticed me. I set it aside and put ...
We arrive in this world connected, to people, to places, to cultures. Just because we move on with our lives, emotionally, intellectually, or geographically, this does not mean that our connections are all left behind.In Mira Jacob
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