Borrowed this one from someone at work, when it was making the rounds. Interesting story, well told from the POV of the teenage daughter, of particularly bizarre episode in her parents' chronically rocky marriage when her mother takes the narrator, May, and her brother Eden, from London to a California ashram, to do some healing. What the children first see as a holiday turns into permanence, and they begin to make friends and go to school on the ashram, and their mother becomes more and more involved in the spiritual teachings of their guru, the weirdly charismatic Parvati. May's developing relationship with the manipulative Sati parallels her growing understanding of the spiritual, political, and emotional dynamics of the adult world, even as her younger brother's experience of events provides a diminishing link to childhood innocence. It's an interesting exploration of all kinds of relationships, and like real life, when the episode is over, everyone is changed by it, but there is no neat and tidy resolution of the issues and problems that underlie.