"a subtly haunting tale" ~ "refreshingly unpredictable" ~ "layers of humor and depth"
 ~ "immerses the reader in the vibrant streets and rituals of Kathmandu"
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Raghu, a youth in tourist Kathmandu, hungers for love and success.
 
Too lightweight to win the girl of his dreams, he resolves to fatten himself up.

Not a morsel will he share, not even with the divine black Bhairab.
 
a gentle Nepalese horror story
15 pages
The Sweet Teeth of God
"You’re like your uncle. What a sorry excuse for a husband I got. He was so skinny he ended up breaking like the lead in a pencil. The girls like a good rounded man, they always have."
I stared at my aunt’s appallingly satisfied smile and wondered if my uncle Jyoti really had died by snapping in two. It might have been his only answer to a wife’s taunting disparagement: a single-minded hunger strike whittling him down to the dryness of a stick, until one day....