Rachel Manija Brown, All the Fishes Come Home to Roost

Reviewed by victoriajanssen on May 30th, 2008, 8:37am

by Rachel Manija Brown

Format: Print Books

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Rachel Manija Brown, All the Fishes Come Home to Roost:

This is the memoir of an LA-area writer who, when she was a child, was taken to India with her parents to live on an ashram, where she was mostly the only child, and the disasters that ensued.

1. It's funny and satiric and shows just how wacky people can be.

2. It shows, from the inside, a completely different world than most of us grew up in, yet I could connect with the child Mani as she read many of the same books I read as a child (throughout, what she's reading is an important part of events).

3. It shows how the child Mani survived that world, even when she thought over and over that she wouldn't. I was so happy that she did, and how she's become so much herself.

4. It has thought-provoking meditations on the nature of faith and heroism.

5. It reads really fast and is really absorbing, both the funny and the horrible parts. Also, the cover is very pretty, and the interior design.

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Victoria Janssen
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