How to Train a Wild Elephant
π Fiction
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2010
π For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
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A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
β Scribed by Jaed Coffin
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Six years ago at the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakramβthus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants chronicles his time at the temple that rain seasonβreceiving alms in the streets in saffron robes; bathing in the canals; learning to meditate in a mountaintop hut; and falling in love with Lek, a beautiful Thai woman who comes to represent the life he can have if he stays. Part armchair travel, part coming-of-age story, this debut work transcends the memoir genre and ushers in a brave new voice in American nonfiction.
β¦ Subjects
Biography & Autobiography; Nonfiction; BIO000000
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