Video: Cary Groner — “Mercy Was In Short Supply”

In this video, writer and Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner Cary Groner reads from his suspenseful novel Exiles. Exiles tells the story of Peter Scanlon, a cardiologist who decides to volunteer at a clinic in Nepal after his marriage falls apart. Peter brings his teenaged daughter with him, but they soon find that they're in increasing danger from Nepal's civil war.

Along with Susan Dunlap and Kim Stanley Robinson, Groner is one of three Buddhist-inspired novelists Andrea Miller profiles in "Pure Fiction" in our September magazine.

As Groner explains in the article, he stated writing Exiles because he was interested in the overlap between Buddhist and the sciences. While the finished book is much more action-packed than what he originally envisioned, the theme of science and religion is still present in a series of conversations between Peter, the American doctor, and a Tibetan lama.

You can read an excerpt of "Pure Fiction" here, and to read the rest, including the section about Groner, his writing process and his meditation practice — as well as the interviews with Dunlap and Robinson — pick up a copy of our September 2012 magazine. To see what else is inside, click here.

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