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Title: A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants
Author: Jaed Coffin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Year: 2008
217 pages
A sweet little memoir in which Coffin, half-Caucasian, half-Thai, spends a summer as a Buddhist monk in his mother's home village. Though his explorations of bi-cultural, bi-racial identity are not complex, they will resonate for adolescent and adult readers engaged in (or remembering) this developmental stage. Coffin's writing is descriptive and conveys mood well.
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