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Author: Karuna Das
Publisher: Ten16 Press
Imprint: Ten16 Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.277kg
ISBN: 9781645384045
ISBN 10: 1645384047
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Excerpts from five-star Goodreads reviews""What a story! ... a trippy, Rock-and-Roll novel with twists and turns that are sure to keep any reader guessing ... I could not put it down!""""A heartbreaking yet laugh-out-loud novel. [Das's] poetic prose is hypnotic ... I found it heartfelt, honest, and true to the human condition.""""A read that I won't soon be forgetting. Das has a way of writing that comes across as very genuine, despite the wild things that are happening.""""Karuna Das does some great work with this piece, an entertaining one and also an easy-to-read way to ask the biggest questions who I am and why on earth am I here?""A really cool style of storytelling that I have rarely, if ever, seen before in another writer.""""Sex, Drugs, and Spiritual Enlightenment (but mostly the first two) takes the reader on a journey that surprises you on every single page. ... Das has a great way with words, and he really paints a picture for the reader ... a book for adults of all sizes, shapes and creeds!""""A kaleidoscopic adventure through the escapades-both sexual and otherwise-of a young man right on the cusp of adulthood.""""Sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes disturbing, sometimes both at the same time ... The writing is powerful and kept me glued to the book!""
Author Information
Karuna Das (Sanskrit for ""servant of compassion"") was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Massachusetts, and presently resides in Pennsylvania, but lives wherever he happens to be at that moment, feels at home everywhere in the universe, and steps through almost any door that opens to him. He holds a BA in English (UMass), an MFA in Playwriting (UW - Seattle), and a PhD in Theatre and Dramaturgy (FSU). His short piece ""Irony of the Second Degree"" appears in 24 Gun Control Plays (NoPassport Press) and has been performed around the world. His full-length play Pyramid Builders received its world premiere production by Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company in April 2023. In addition to his playwriting, he's published the novels Sex, Drugs & Spiritual Enlightenment (but mostly the first two) and Kat's Cradle: Webolution Book One, short fiction in Meat for Tea, Catalyst, Pif Magazine, and ActiveMuse, and creative nonfiction and poetry in The Wayfarer, with a story in the upcoming B Cubed Press anthology Alternative Leadership. Works-in-progress include Solar Max: Webolution Book Two and a fictionalized version of the lives and deaths of his maternal grandparents and mother called Playing By Ear. He and life partner Ti share their house with five wonderfully wacky cats.
