{"product_id":"my-family-and-other-saints-kirin-narayan-9780226568218","title":"My Family and Other Saints","description":"In 1969, young Kirin Narayan's 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.\u003cbr\u003eA touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, \u003ci\u003eMy Family and Other Saints\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Kirin's sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eBody + Soul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay.\"--William Grimes, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kirin Narayan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226568210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226568218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.50w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/02\/2008 pg. 24","brand":"Kirin Narayan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119457726719,"sku":"9780226568218","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9ca8404-59db-4e03-ba24-5fc17655bcf3.jpg?v=1687409462","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-family-and-other-saints-kirin-narayan-9780226568218","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}