Spanning india in the 70s to new mexico in the 80s to Seattle in the 90s, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past. When brain surgeon ...Spanning india in the 70s to new mexico in the 80s to Seattle in the 90s, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past. 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.