All the Fishes Come Home to Roost

An American Misfit in India

By Rachel Brown

2005

First Published

3.72

Average Rating

352

Number of Pages

10H45M

Audio Length

When she was seven, Rachel Manija Brown's parents, post-60s hippies, uprooted her from her native California and moved to an ashram in a cobra-ridden, drought-stricken spot in India. Cavorting through these pages are some wonderfully eccentric the ashram head, Meher Baba, best known as the guru to Pete Townshend of The Who; the librarian, who grunts and howls nightly outside Rachel's window; a holy madman, who shuffles about collecting invisible objects; a middle-aged male virgin, who begs Rachel to critique his epic spiritual poems; and a delusional Russian who arrives at the ashram proclaiming he is Meher Baba reincarnated. Astutely observed and laugh-out-loud funny, All the Fishes Come Home to Roost is an astonishing debut memoir―now available in paperback―and the arrival of a major new literary talent. The hardcover edition was named a Book Sense Pick and was selected as a Book of the Week by BN.com's Book Club.

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Author

Rachel Brown

Author · 8 books

Rachel Manija Brown is the author of all sorts of stories in all sorts of genres. Most of her works are listed below, but she has also written television, plays, video games, and a comic strip meant to be silk-screened on to a scarf. In her other identity, she is a life coach. She writes paranormal romance for adults under the pen names of Lia Silver and Zoe Chant. If you'd like to get a review copy of one of her books, please message her. If you'd like to be alerted when new books in the "Change" series come out, copy this to get on Rachel's mailing list: http://eepurl.com/Tzv25 Book four (Traitor) of The Change series is being finished right now! Sherwood is currently serializing it on her Patreon - search Patreon for Sherwood Smith if you're interested.