A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants: A Memoir

Product ID: 230570

Publication Date: 2008-02
Author(s):Jaed Coffin
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 205
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306815265
ISBN13: 9780306815263

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SKU	0306815265
Weight	0.23 Kgs
Price:	HK$128.00

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A simple story of a rain season in Thailand and a young man at the intersection of two cultures. 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 Panomsarakram--thus 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 season--receiving 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.

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