Word: chinchona
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...literary debut with a collection of 10 stories as tightly constructed as bejeweled Indian snuffboxes, all odd springs and curious kinks. Nearly every one is pungent with the "damp hessian, methylated spirits and freshly planed deal" of Bombay in the '40s, and colorful families "big in rawolfia serpentina and chinchona bark"; the protagonists are mystics, madmen and hermaphrodites. And nearly all describe episodes of heat and lust, watched through homemade cracks by randy teenage boys. Inside the cunning boxes lie spicy sweetmeats...
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