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'This plucky and witty memoir reads like a compelling novel'
'A vivid travleogue, frequently wise and very funny'
'Reads like a novel and lingers in the mind.' (Kirkus Reviews )
Quirky, frank coming-of-age memoir... that reflects a painful time with wit and insight. (Publishers Weekly )
'One of Fall's most promising memoirs'
(Daily Telegraph )
'A vivid travleogue, frequently wise and very funny'
(Daily Mail, Book of the Week )
'Reads like a novel and lingers in the mind.' (Kirkus Reviews )
Quirky, frank coming-of-age memoir... that reflects a painful time with wit and insight. (Publishers Weekly )
‘Horrific childhood: check. Searing, indelible prose: check. Comparisons to Augusten Burroughs’ Running with Scissors: check (and they’re richly deserved).
(Entertainment Weekly )'One of Fall's most promising memoirs'
(USA Today )
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When Rachel was six, in the early 80s, her parents whisked her off from LA to join an ashram in a backwater town in India. They were followers of Meher Baba, best known for the slogan ‘Don’t worry, be happy'. She was the only foreign child in a 100-mile radius and the ashram was populated by holy madmen and unhinged aging hippies.
As if that wasn't enough to contend with, Rachel, the daughter of Jewish Baba-lovers, was bundled off to the Bleeding Heart School, a last vestige of the British Empire staffed by nuns with a penchant for keeping their charges standing in the midday sun until they fainted.
Surrounded by adults who were patently mad, Rachel buried herself in comics, tamed the local wildlife and spent a lot of time avoiding her mother.
By turns moving, jaw-droppingly strange and very very funny, this is a brilliant memoir of a distinctly odd childhood that lingers in the mind and demands to be recommended to all your friends. (20060609)
As if that wasn't enough to contend with, Rachel, the daughter of Jewish Baba-lovers, was bundled off to the Bleeding Heart School, a last vestige of the British Empire staffed by nuns with a penchant for keeping their charges standing in the midday sun until they fainted.
Surrounded by adults who were patently mad, Rachel buried herself in comics, tamed the local wildlife and spent a lot of time avoiding her mother.
By turns moving, jaw-droppingly strange and very very funny, this is a brilliant memoir of a distinctly odd childhood that lingers in the mind and demands to be recommended to all your friends. (20060609)
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