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Fireflies
Brilliant Casey Cavanaugh is a poet, a writer and a junkie. All she wants is to overcome her addiction and pursue her dream of becoming a professor of literature. She struggles night and day. Her twin brother Chaz wants to save her. But he's powerless over her demons. As Casey succumbs to her addiction, Chaz faces his own hard choices. Set in contemporary Los Angeles, there's an opoid epidemic sweeping the country, and Casey and Chaz are caught in the maelstrom.
Dharma Woman
Dharma Woman delves into the 59 precepts of the Lojong, Buddhist principles for study and meditation, as a basis for this commentary. The author illuminates with wit and wisdom the difficulties of following the buddhist path of mindfulness and meditation, compassion and loving kindness, as a daily practice when faced with the circumstances and challenges of living in the secular world.
The Grief Chronicles:
A survivors manual to death from overdose. This is the story of one mothers grief recovery after her 32 year old daughter died from a heroin overdose in 2009. In the author's words "So perhaps you thought this was going to be a tale of how I traveled to some exotic land, how I left everything behind, and how I met fellow travelers on some road to Zanzibar to recover from my grief. Perhaps you thought this was going to be a story of redemption, of how I lost myself in booze and then found myself on some street corner or dark alley, and then got my life back together again. No, rather this is the story of how I went deep inside myself and found a reservoir of strength in my day to day existenc...
My Daughter's Addiction
This memoir is the harrowing story of one mother's journey through the hell of her daughter's heroin addiction. It is also a topical memoir that traces the social history of drug use from the youth culture of the 1960's to present time, and also examines public policy on drug abuse and its impact on our criminal justice system. The author’s story begins as a young woman whose mother, an antiques dealer, was murdered in her upscale suburban antiques shop in 1968; 3 days after the Chicago Democratic Convention where cops and hippies clashed in a historic confrontation. Subsequently, the author emerged into the youth culture of the 60’s, where rampant drug experimentation was the norm. Out ...
All Gods Are Flawed
"I had been on the path a long time. I was searching for something, but I wasn’t sure what. I walked down a street and I met the old gods. The gods of legend and the gods of myth and the gods of archetype. I conversed with them. And they told me how to be. They told me who they are, and how I should be. They set me straight. They said they were my allies. They informed me that they exist, and have always existed as archetypes since the beginning of time. They showed me that they exist, and that should I be so privileged as to work with them, that they will guide me. They told me to take time to get to know them, and take time to introduce myself. To take time to walk with them, speak with ...
Private Citizens
‘A brilliant novel – whip smart, hilarious and entirely engrossing’ Emma Cline, author of The Girls 'Tulathimutte is a big talent’ Jonathan Franzen, author of Purity 'An eloquent social novel bristling with logic’ Nell Zink, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2016 *A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 – SELECTED BY JONATHAN FRANZEN* From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition and friendship - dubbed ‘the first great millennial novel’ by New York Magazine. Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the noughties, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century. Call it a gleefully rude comedy ...
The Ramayana Revisited
14 leading 'Ramayana' scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. The essays also expand the understanding of the 'text' to include non-verbal renditions of the epic.
Scrutinized!
Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels' fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny.
The Angel's Beauty Spots
The Angel's Beauty Spots' is a disquieting story about Angela's repeated infidelities and the trauma of failed love; in 'And Forgetting the Tree, I...' Radhika tries to come to terms with a former love that refuses to leave her; and 'The Deepest Blue' uses magic and metaphor to tell the story of a wife who yearns for a love that transcends lifetimes.
Chandrabati’s Ramayan
Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. Idolised as a model of marital obedience and chastity in Valmiki’s Ramayan, Chandrabati’s lyrical retelling of Sita’s story offers us a fresh perspective. Written in order to be sung before a non-courtly audience, mainly of womenfolk of rural Bengal, Chandrabati’s Ramayan adds new characters and situations to the story to provide new interpretations of already known events drawing richly on elements of existing genres. Its location in the tales of everyday life has ensured that Chandrabati’s Ramayan lives on in the hearts of village women of modern-day India.
