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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'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.
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"Rachel Manija Brown's memoir of her unconventional upbringing on an ashram in India is lyrical, riveting and man is it funny. Inspiring, generous and never whiny, Rachel Manija Brown proves that it is never too late to have a happy childhood.
She is my new favorite writer."
--Karen Duffy, author of Model Patient and A Slob in the Kitchen.
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