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My Family and Other Saints by Kirin Narayan (Hardcover, 2007)

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In 1969, young Kirin Narayan?s older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone? especially Kirin, who adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother. A touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints traces the reverberations of Rahoul's spiritual journey through the entire family. As their beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin?s sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son?s spiritual quest as her own. Her Indian father, however, coins the term ?urug??guru spelled backward?to mock these seekers, while young Kirin, surrounded by radiant holy men, parents drifting apart, and a motley of young, often eccentric Westerners, is left to find her own answers. Deftly recreating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, Narayan presents a large, rambunctious cast of quirky characters. Throughout, she brings to life not just a family but also a time when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest. ?A lovely book about the author's youth in Bombay, India. . . . The family home becomes a magnet for truth-seekers, and Narayan is there to affectionately document all of it.??Body + Soul ?Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay.??William Grimes, New York Times

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Publisher
T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226568201
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90106225

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Author
Kirin Narayan
Publication Name
My Family and Other Saints
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
246 Pages

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Item Height
235mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
468g

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Title_Author
Kirin Narayan
Topic
Religious History
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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