My Life with a Brahmin Family (Translated from the French by Lucy Norton) Hardcover – January 1, 1959

Westerners who attempt to penetrate Eastern cultures and record what they find ordinarily do so from, and with, their minds, remaining outside their subjects as they describe or elucidate them. Lizelle Reymond's book is quite different. Those who only wish to learn externally, with facts piled upon facts, may not experience the depths and richness the author shares in this unusual book. The core here is like the unspoken core within the family whose lives and relationships she shared. At the core: a subtle unity, all parts relating to the Whole. This approach, and all the author recounts from her day-to-day experiences within a Brahmin family, attract and nourish readers with corresponding interests, both in relation to foreign cultures, but also within themselves.Lizelle Reymond also wrote, "To Live Within," a unique masterpiece for those who are not so certain about what is "outside" and what is "inside." James Opie

Miss Reymond was in India first time from 1947 to 1953, but she did also then go back in time some thousands of years when she joined her family with their long heritage. As the name says the book tells of her life in an orthodox Brahmin family observing the rigid discipline that belong to the tradition.Miss Reymond writes: "This story begins when I had been living for seven months in the little Himalayan town of Kurmachala, where I had gone to write and study, after spending more than two busy years at Calcutta, my first home-town amid the splendour and squalor of Bengal".A very readable book with plenty of keen observations and experiences.

A fairly rare book

Its a point of view by looking into a household. Nothing really special.