{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-saints-0226568210","title":"My Family and Other Saints","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226568210\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Narayan, Kirin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1969, young Kirin Narayans 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, Kirins sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her sons 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 + SoulGods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay.-William Grimes, New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51677865410848,"sku":"NEW0226568210","price":21.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61hNFf1x-EL.jpg?v=1779298720","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/my-family-and-other-saints-0226568210","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}