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Title: A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: JaedCoffin <>Publisher: DaCapoPress
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"It's worth reading this book twice. Once for the story--absorbing and, at times, amusing--and once more for the poetry: crystalline observations of people and place that float alongside the narrative. What could have been a simple coming-of-age tale is, in Coffin's hands, a wry, at times lyrical commentary on cultural identity and Buddhist practice."
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"It's worth reading this book twice. Once for the story--absorbing and, at times, amusing--and once more for the poetry: crystalline observations of people and place that float alongside the narrative. What could have been a simple coming-of-age tale is, in Coffin's hands, a wry, at times lyrical commentary on cultural identity and Buddhist practice."
Part armchair travel lit, part love-story, this evocative memoir by a young Thai-American man chronicles his summer in a Buddhist temple and his evolving relationship with a beautiful Thai woman, Lek. In 2001, Jaed Coffin, a young Thai-American man, left New England's privileged Middlebury College and travelled to Thailand to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in his mother's native village of Panomsarakram, and thereby fulfil a family obligation. While addressing the notions of displacement, ethnic identity and cultural belonging, "A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants" chronicles Jaed's time at the temple that rainy season - collecting alms in the streets in saffron robes, bathing in the canals, learning to meditate in a mountainside hut, and falling in love with Lek, a beautiful Thai woman who comes to represent the life he can have if he stays.
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- PublisherDa Capo Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0306815265
- ISBN 13 9780306815263
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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