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Simi Books
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
333 pages
ISBN: 0990578402
EAN: 9780990578406
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Contemporary
Set against the striking backdrop of South Asia in the early years of
the new millennium, Jaya Nepal! is a rollicking mini epic that takes
readers into the bustling, exotic, and colorful world of urban
Kathmandu. Twenty-five-year-old Berkeley grad Benjamin Creed, an idealistic and
motivated young recruit, begins his odyssey in a community curiously
named Pepsicola Townplanning. The newly reinstated Nepal Peace Corps
program, resurrected after the country’s lengthy and bloody civil war,
has drawn a gauntlet of intrepid volunteers, joining him in an iconic,
multiyear program. Following Benjamin to Nepal is a painful past riddled with careless
words and broken hearts, which eventually catches up with him and
forces him to make the toughest decision of his life. Along the way,
Benjamin and his friends, American and Nepali alike, encounter
circumstances and choices that illuminate the struggles, sacrifices,
and triumphs that intimately shape the lives of volunteers in and
residents of South Asia. An engaging look at the life of someone who
volunteers with the Peace Corps but finds experiences that transcend
even that, Jaya Nepal! is an examination of what it means to be a
young person torn by the equally powerful emotions of love and desire
for social justice.
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