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Often times magic is found in a debut novel. This debut novel does not disappoint.
Jacob can write and I hope she has another story to tell. The characters are real,
the reader can feel their pain and their joy. There are normal everyday problems,
then there are problems so serious, that no solutions are evident. This is an unusual
story. The Eapen family, immigrants from India are the main story line. There are many
extended family members. This large extended family offer comic relief. Amina, her
mom Kamala, and her father Thomas face death, sickness, conflict and love. Thomas
is a successful brain surgeon, yet he cannot save himself or his loved ones. Amina
is a wonderful character. Jacob allows us to crawl into Amina's head. She is a 30 year
old unmarried photo journalist. She is close to her family and feels a responsibility for them but
Amina is helpless in the chaos of their life. This is a good solid book. Our author has much to say
and she says it very well. Mira Jacob is a new talent on the radar of literature.


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The Sleepwalker Guide to Dancing A Novel Mira Jacob Books Reviews

A deeply moving book. How many times have we heard of people who seem to be able to have the remarkable ability to live through adversities or who seem to withstand emotional turmoil. We give them various courageous titles but the internal turmoil which such pillars undergo is very well explored by Mira in this book. Reading this book helps us appreciate them better and understand that there are no super humans, all of us are human beings with different emotional quotient. Many , like Thomas Eapen in this book, are not comfortable expressing or even accepting their emotions, bottling it inside only to face a volcanic impact in long run.

Mira weaves the story around some haunting memories – the self being consumed by the memories of the some loved ones but living only to ensure that it does not repeat with others. Mira has also brought to fore the trials and tribulations of a first generation and second generation immigrant-how the roots refuse to give up claim on the self while the self finds little connect to the root – admired but not wanted back home. The fellow immigrants are the only “family” members who come together to support each other in any adversities.

The characters in the story are quite limited – Dr Eapens , his wife Kamala, daughter Amina (the main protagonist of the story) and son Akhil. A relatively small flashback in India, but which becomes a kind of core, albeit tragic, to the story. Mira does a great work in terms of moving the flashback to the current , without making the reader lose the thread. The story moves between Salem (in India), Seattle and Albuquerque (in US) with ease. The readers may find some terms difficult to understand, but that should not impact the story. ( by the way “koche” means little girl ).

A great work , considering that this first book from Mira . I would highly recommend this book , if one is headed for some heavy reading
I was so confident I'd love this book that I side-stepped my usual habit of test-driving the sample pages and bought the e-book outright. Then I tried to read the first few pages and wondered if I'd been a little foolhardy. I put the book down and moved on to Americanah. Then I chided myself by recalling all the excellent books I've read that might not have survived the sample test (as a New Zealander I was educator to think that you had to read the first 50 pages of The Bone People before quitting on it). So I picked it up again and I'm so, so happy I did.

Enough people have written about the plot, the genre, the characters — so I'll leave that to them. For me it was one of those rare books that felt like a great literary page-turner. My greed to read the book (staying up until 3am for several nights) was more akin to how I'd throw myself into crime fiction. And yet, I also found myself underlying passages that resonated so intensely my heart would quicken with recognition. Still, I get to read a few books like this a year and I don't review any of them, so why bother with this book? I am compelled to review this because when my father passed away I set out in search of a novel where grieving was at the core of the story. I wasn't looking for a harrowing story or a sentimental one — I just wanted to read some great literature that spoke to the everyday experience of grief so someone that knew how to write could hold up a mirror to my impossibly hard to articulate feelings.

This was the novel I was looking for.

Back then no amount of keyword searches within led me to anything like this — and I have no idea how I would now help people to find this one. I thought of writing Grief and Loss in the review subject heading — but that would belie how much I also laughed. Although I have to say I do kind of regret feeling compelled to read the final pages on my commute home — I might have savored the last tears more in the privacy of my home! But the fact I couldn't wait to read the last chapter is a measure of how I had come to love the characters and to feel deep gratitude for Jacob's gift.
Oh my. I don't even know where to start with this review. I guess I should start with this is really an exceptional story about a very dysfunctional family that is trying to find their way through life. This does not sound like a good hook to get you to read the story, but it is really far more than that. This story is very well written and keeps you reading to see what will happen to all of these people. I had trouble putting the book down because I wanted to know. You really do like all of the characters. The story just flows and brings you along for the ride. I feel that this is a must read story.
This was the most tedious read I've had since reading "Moby Dick" in high school. As a retired English teacher, I can honestly admit to reading many books for fun and many others because they had a meaning. This book had nothing to offer other than a list of what this Indian family ate at every meal. I'm sorry to say that I bought this based on the reviews of professionals. I'm convinced they got paid for promoting it.
Often times magic is found in a debut novel. This debut novel does not disappoint.
Jacob can write and I hope she has another story to tell. The characters are real,
the reader can feel their pain and their joy. There are normal everyday problems,
then there are problems so serious, that no solutions are evident. This is an unusual
story. The Eapen family, immigrants from India are the main story line. There are many
extended family members. This large extended family offer comic relief. Amina, her
mom Kamala, and her father Thomas face death, sickness, conflict and love. Thomas
is a successful brain surgeon, yet he cannot save himself or his loved ones. Amina
is a wonderful character. Jacob allows us to crawl into Amina's head. She is a 30 year
old unmarried photo journalist. She is close to her family and feels a responsibility for them but
Amina is helpless in the chaos of their life. This is a good solid book. Our author has much to say
and she says it very well. Mira Jacob is a new talent on the radar of literature.