Look at Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others its unremitting, unceasing record of hideous behaviour made the short-list for the Booker Prize. Jacob begins with recollections of "a fever, a hot rage of words" and sustains that pitch and temperature throughout.įamily members can certainly act more horribly to each other than Jacob's do. Her characters rail and flail at each other in India, in Seattle, in Albuquerque, then in any other way-station where they find themselves. Mira Jacob's novel, which took her a decade to write, is grounded – and ground up – in various permutations of intra-familial anger and anguish. That judgment about family dramas and sagas might induce scepticism in a reader of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob.
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