LEADER 04410nam 2200685 450 001 9910818429203321 005 20230207220225.0 010 $a0-226-56815-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226568157 035 $a(CKB)3710000000116808 035 $a(EBL)3038583 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001227670 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12529478 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001227670 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11278944 035 $a(PQKB)11391816 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038583 035 $a(DE-B1597)523829 035 $a(OCoLC)1135571406 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226568157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038583 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10879068 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL615165 035 $a(OCoLC)880878301 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000116808 100 $a20070605h20072007 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMy family and other saints /$fKirin Narayan 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2007] 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-56821-0 311 $a0-226-56820-2 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tThe Hook -- $t1. Gods' Eyes -- $t2. Crazy Saints -- $t3. The Seven-Horned Mountain -- $t4. Blind Blue Heavens, Pure Blue Light -- $t5. Fused Doubles -- $t6. Doorways -- $t7. Gurus and Urugs -- $t8. Mrs. Contractor's Eldest Unmarried Daughter -- $t9. Conjunctions -- $t10. The Moon Pearl -- $t11. At the Border -- $t12. Twin Goddess -- $tThe Clasp 330 $aIn 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. A touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints 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. "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."-Body + Soul "Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay."-William Grimes, New York Times 606 $aWomen anthropologists$zIndia$zMumbai$vBiography 606 $aAnthropology of religion$zIndia$zMumbai 606 $aFamilies$zIndia$zMumbai 606 $aHinduism and culture$zIndia$zMumbai 607 $aMumbai (India)$xReligious life and customs 607 $aMumbai (India)$xSocial life and customs 610 $amemoir, enlightenment, guru, religion, spirituality, family, brother, siblings, bombay, india, eastern philosophy, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, pilgrimage, ashram, holy men, coming of age, spiritual quest, youth, childhood, adolescence, anthropology, sociology, hinduism, mumbai, seeking, journey, growth, gods, female authors, indian women, gender, sister. 615 0$aWomen anthropologists 615 0$aAnthropology of religion 615 0$aFamilies 615 0$aHinduism and culture 676 $a306.850954/792092 700 $aNarayan$b Kirin$0866560 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818429203321 996 $aMy family and other saints$94071066 997 $aUNINA