I'm busy finishing the final chapters of Sacred Threads, my ethnographic memoir on Nepal. It's a story of how I married into a Brahman family in Nepal, the knotty cultural conflicts we worked through, painful unravelings, and the ties that have deepened and endured for more than twenty years.
I'll be posting a better overview of the manuscript here soon. If you're interested in reading shorter pieces drawn from the book, here's a list of what's been published in print so far:
"Natural Births," The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2009. (The website is out of date, but I'm told filling out the online form and making the appropriate payment will get you the latest issue).
"Ama,"Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2009. Finalist for John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize.
"Fieldnotes on Flooding in Nepal," The Truth About the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, Spring 2009.
"Witnessing Indra's Sin," Fishtrap Anthology: Speaking Truth, 2008.
