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Posted Amazon.co.uk Waterstone's A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants A Memoir Jaed Coffin Format: Paperback 205 pages Date of publication: February 2008 Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 9780306815263 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. Click the above link/image for details of this book. Reply to this topic to add your review. Use the Rate It! link to submit your rating of this book.

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