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many returned to the same rice plantations from which they had escaped

the narrator and their new bestie--a self-proclaimed "garbage goth" with her own emotional baggage (and someone on her tail)--unpack the narrator's childhood and a recent personal loss that they refuse to face head-on

"It is in our very atmosphere" and lies at the heart of who we are

that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the divine across place and time

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