Cruelly, it was Langtang’s very vitality that spelled doom for extended families up and down the valley.

In Other Words is an account of Jhumpa Lahiri losing and finding herself

Three is an oblique, incomplete number. Three is a number of charm. Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times a pattern.

Thousands of men, multicolored pain.

I am Juthey, a lowly, poor man of this world

No!

It’s midwinter and soon time for Losar / time also to cast aside our failures and regrets / and propitiate the deities for the New Year.

खिच्नोस् खिच्नोस् / कसरी बसम्? यसरी? / कि यसरी?

Broken stonework, sharp edges. I feel them / cutting my cheeks and chest. Maybe / someone took my legs?

“Y’know, Marilyn Monroe was a Russian spy?” “Nope. But a postman wrote Ham on Rye.”