Red Earth and Pouring Rain

“Rich, heady, many-layered,” a novel that is part  American road trip and part nineteenth-century epic set in India is “a magnificent tour de force.” — Los Angeles Times Home in Bombay after his studies in the United States, Abhay, an Indian college student, shoots a scavenging monkey only to discover that the creature is actually a reincarnation of nineteenth-century poet Sanjay Parasher.  To survive, the monkey must entertain Abhay’s family by telling stories. When the monkey grows w