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Practicing Dying barry mcgee or long grasses shifting inPracticing Dying is a literary anti memoir documenting life in a Zen Buddhist monastery in rural France where the protagonist, a woman in her late twenties, attempts to overcome chronic drug addiction and mental illness. Broken and severely unwell, our protagonist arrives at the monastery from London: starving, drug addicted and disillusioned, having exhausted every conventional treatment route available to her. The book examines how, habituated to a