Holy Cow

If your looking for a book to tap into the Indian culture this is a good place to start.  I pulled this book off the Rising Star book self in the Hostel before a weekend trip to New Delhi, not knowing anything about it.  I am so glad I did.  This is such a funny book!  I was laughing out loud as I read.  Sarah MacDonald has a witty way of explaining the strange things you will see, (and won't see) in India.

This is a great book for the airplane!

Here is Amazon's book review:

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger.

But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. “I must find peace in the only place possible in India,” she concludes. “Within.” Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. 

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