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Naga writer Easterine Kire’s clear bright sound over a sleeping world This quietly irrepressible one-woman cultural renaissance has pioneered the modern literary culture of Nagaland, The protagonist of The Man Who Lost His Spirit, one of ten hauntingly brief stories in Easterine Kire’s spare, exquisite new collection The Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man (Seagull Books), blunders in leaving his spirit behind in a tall tree in the forest. His companions attempt retrieval, but he was not the same and “began to change in subtle ways” so that his wife “grew cold with fear. Who was this stranger who had usurped her husband’s body?” ....