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Slugs have gone extinct from my garden,
I no longer see them.
They would have healed your broken bones,
People say. Put them inside a banana
And swallow them whole, they say.

One woman tells me of a Newar mother
Who would fry up the slugs
and feed it to her tubercular daughter
who lived in the dank and the damp
of Ason’s secretive courtyards. Solicitous,
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	The End of the World 3.39 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chicken Soup for the Soul Indian Teachers by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Wendy M. Dickson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Discovery of the High Lama 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rage of a New Ancestor. 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology by Declan O’Sullivan (Editor), Fena Lee (Cover Design), Katherine Jones (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheese 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prediction liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr. Cheng's Silver Coffeepot. 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology by Alan Van Every (Illustrator & Contributor), Trirat Petchsingh, Paul Salvette (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Killed My Best Friend's Father 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Religious Life of the Gorkhalis of Myanmar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yomimono - 16 by Suzanne Kamata (Goodreads Author), Marcus Bird (Goodreads Author), Jane Joritz-Nakagawa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Historian

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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

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“There are lots of obstacles to peace... Before, people used to live in simple lifestyles. Simple food, simple clothes. Now it's more jealousy, more competition. Wealthy countries and children suffer because there is no meaning.”
― Sushma Joshi

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“Disturbing emotions arise from the things we see, things we hear and things we taste. But these things have no reality. No reality.”
― Sushma Joshi, The Discovery of the High Lama

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