Kirin Narayan’s Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales comprises stories told to Narayan by an older woman in the Kangra hills of Himachal Pradesh, India, who—she credits on the cover—is also her collaborator. These stories are “told” but also retold in the Himalayan environs and changed and tweaked, into many oral versions, with lilting fluidity. Narayan begins by describing her work as “narrative ethnography”—a particular style of ethnography that Ditte Andersen explains as studying “stories in the context of their telling.” Such a form seems to naturally lend itself to a book like Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon, where Narayan is the listener, only asking questions at the end, and absorbing tales far removed from her life/rigmarole in the USA.