White Bird
Description
An accidental death launches a brother into strange, foreign
adventures
Thomas is a laid-back handyman until his mother asks him to
go to Kathmandu and scatter the ashes of his older brother Paul. He is totally
unprepared for travel, especially to exotic Nepal.
He uncovers Paul's past as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal.
There was a lover, Helen, who stayed behind to embrace Buddhism. Her parents
are still there working with Tibetan refugees. He meets Eike, an unlikely
Buddhist shaman, or healer. He dabbles in meditation and Tantric sex, flirts
with Helen, and makes some big mistakes.
The ashes are one issue. The other is Paul's soul, the
“white bird,” trapped in the bardo,
the state between death and rebirth. Spiritual dramas cross the world, dragging
Thomas' soul into new territory.
About the Author
Sevo is a boomer, a woman of the sixties. Her fiction probably involves foreign travel, spirituality, the conventions of love, and finding yourself. She has published four novels, most recently Pip of Sedro Woolley (2019), My Boat Is So Small (2017), White Bird (2014), and Vilnius Diary (2011).
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