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How is existence stitched together, and what worlds reside between its seams?Wasteland Mandala is a genre-b(l)ending literary novel that follows a first-person narrator through repetitive cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Each consecutive world explores a specific struggle against ignorance, domination, and cruelty. Weaving together threads of fable, myth, poetry, philosophy, and surrealism, this novel laments the suffering of sentient beings and speculates about their redemption through collective endeavor, while carrying the reader on waves of melancholy, lyrical prose strewn with absurdist, sing-song verse. Each consecutive world carries its own integration and disintegration. Throughout, the author plays with and explores the limitations of language, attempting to dissolve its meaning and sentiment into the world in watery ways, sometimes curling around or seeping underneath the narrative structure.