By Adele Barker"Barker received a Fulbright scholarship for a yearlong teaching stint at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, 2001/02. She returned shortly after the tsunami in 2004, in which 30,000 people died in Sri Lanka alone. In this illuminating account, Barker provides glimpses of day-to-day living and teaching in Sri Lanka and describes the devastation caused by the tsunami and the subsequent relief efforts. She chronicles the toll that the civil war in Sri Lanka has taken on the lives of ordinary citizens over the last 26 years, interweaving her narrative with human stories of ordinary Sinhalese and Tamils. Barker relates an engrossing discussion that she led with Jaffna students on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. In the midst of trauma, Barker provides captivating accounts about elephants, monkeys, and exotic birds." (LJ Reviews)
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