Book Launch: The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob, with Julie Klam

When brain surgeon Thomas Eapen decides to cut short a visit to his mother’s home in India in 1979, he sets into motion a series of events that will forever haunt him and his wife Kamala, their intellectually precocious son Akhil, and their watchful daughter, Amina.  Now, twenty years later, in the heat of a New Mexican summer, Thomas has begun having bizarre conversations with his dead relatives and it’s up to Amina—a photographer in the midst of her own career crisis–to figure out what is really going on. But getting to the truth is far harder than it seems.  From Thomas’s unwillingness to talk, to Kamala’s Born Again convictions, to run-ins with a hospital staff that seems to know much more than they let on, Amina finds herself at the center of a mystery so thick with disasters that to make any headway at all, she has to unravel the family’s painful past.