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A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants: A Memoir
A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants A Memoir
Author: Jaed Coffin
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 o...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780306815263
ISBN-10: 0306815265
Pages: 205
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  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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2.9 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Somewhat superficial and quite callow memoir - the title is the most lyrical writing in the book, and it is not the author's own language. Not a total waste of time, but really did not deliver what I had hoped for in terms of depth or narrative content.
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