"We give life, not death... "But humans, humans only know how to kill." Award-winning author Easterine Kire weaves an enchanting tale out of the traditions and folklore and very landscape of her native Naga peoples. A young girl's coming of age threatens to tear the bond between daughter and mother. The first flames of romantic passion bring a different kind of threat... Easterine succeeds in making the universal human condition ring forth from a place so very different from our own.