{"product_id":"the-sleepwalkers-guide-to-dancing-paperback","title":"The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMira Jacob\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With wit and a rich understanding of human foibles, [Mira] Jacob unspools a story that will touch your heart.\"--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted journey that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New Mexico to Seattle during the dot.com boom. \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing \u003c\/i\u003eis an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of hope, and the power of making peace with life's uncertainties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Celebrated brain surgeon Thomas Eapen has been sitting on his porch, talking to dead relatives. At least that is the story his wife, Kamala, prone to exaggeration, tells their daughter, Amina, a photographer living in Seattle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reluctantly Amina returns home and finds a situation that is far more complicated than her mother let on, with roots in a trip the family, including Amina's rebellious brother Akhil, took to India twenty years earlier. Confronted by Thomas's unwillingness to explain himself, strange looks from the hospital staff, and a series of puzzling items buried in her mother's garden, Amina soon realizes that the only way she can help her father is by coming to terms with her family's painful past. In doing so, she must reckon with the ghosts that haunt all of the Eapens.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMira Jacob \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e. Her recent work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, Vogue, Glamour, Tin House, Electric Literature, Literary Hub. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757763526944,"sku":"9780812985061","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/589033c104d48d974339c15bd057129a.webp?v=1780111226","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-sleepwalkers-guide-to-dancing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}