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I loved the lush lyrical language in these four loosely connected stories that offers narratives of people in South Asia whose voices are often missing in the mainstream.
Full of interesting historical, cultural and geological details as the stories took me to the Andaman Islands, 1990s Burma (now Myanmar) and the Karakoram Mountains.
Overall this inventive book offers a nuanced and thoughtful exploration of human connections and the world we live in.
In the author's note she says, "Th ...more
I loved the lush lyrical language in these four loosely connected stories that offers narratives of people in South Asia whose voices are often missing in the mainstream.
Full of interesting historical, cultural and geological details as the stories took me to the Andaman Islands, 1990s Burma (now Myanmar) and the Karakoram Mountains.
Overall this inventive book offers a nuanced and thoughtful exploration of human connections and the world we live in.
In the author's note she says, "Th ...more
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