The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Read by the author.
Celebrated brain surgeon Thomas Eapen has been sitting on his porch, talking to dead relatives. At least that is the story his wife, Kamala, prone to exaggeration, tells their daughter, Amina, a photographer living in Seattle. Reluctantly Amina returns home and finds a situation that is far more complicated than her mother let on, with roots in a trip the family, including Amina's rebellious brother Akhil, took to India twenty years earlier. Confronted by Thomas' unwillingness to explain himself, strange looks from the hospital staff, and a series of puzzling items buried in her mother's garden, Amina soon realizes that the only way she can help her father is by coming to terms with her family's painful past. In doing so, she must reckon with the ghosts that haunt all of the Eapens.

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highly recommended! submitted by 21621031390949 on August 11, 2016, 9:33pm I love this book! I don't know who recommended it to me, or if I picked it up off the shelf at the library, but I didn't know anything about it before I started listening to it (the audiobook edition.) I enjoyed it on so many levels. It's a very interesting window into East Indian and Indian-American culture, with the complications that arise between parents who grew up in India and their American-born children. It was also a very believable story about a family's response to the accidental death of one of its members. And although this is a debut novel for this author, I thought the writing was very good, with some lovely descriptive passages, and very realistic dialogue.

The recorded performance was very well done. The reader managed several different character's voices, with degrees of Indian and American accents.

I recommend this book! I flew through it, not wanting to stop listening until it was done.