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For lovers of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Mona Simpson, and Jhumpa Lahiri comes an absolute, irreverent debut book about a family wrestling with its future and its past. With depth, heart and soul, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob calls for us over a deftly plotted voyage that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New Mexico to Seattle during the dot.com growth. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing can be an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of anticipation, and the power of making peace with life's uncertainties. Celebrated brain cosmetic surgeon Thomas Eapen has been relaxing on his porch, talking to dead relatives. At least that is the story his partner, Kamala, prone to exaggeration, tells their little girl, Amina, a shooter living in Seattle. Reluctantly, Amina results home and detects a situation that is a lot more complicated than her mother let on, with root base in a trip the family, including Amina's rebellious brother Akhil, got to India 20 years earlier. Faced with Thomas's unwillingness to clarify himself, strange looks from the hospital staff, and some puzzling items buried in her mother's garden, Amina soon realizes that the only path she can help her father is by arriving to terms with her family's painful past. In doing so, she must reckon with the spirits that haunt all of the Eapens.
