Second book by Northfield native Mike Frame published by Larchill Press.

After growing up on a farm near Northfield and graduating from Carleton College in 1962, Mike Frame joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Nepal.

Though he had originally signed up for two years, he stayed on for four and subsequently spent most of his adult life in Nepal. He established a restaurant, Mike’s Breakfast, in Kathmandu which was internationally acclaimed and is still a gathering place for tourists, expatriates and locals. His first book, MIKE’S BREAKFAST: COOKING IN NEPAL AND THEN SOME grew out of that experience. He later moved to Pokhara, Nepal where he was owner/manager of Hotel Fewa and Mike’s Restaurant with equal success.

Mike’s new book, A STONE HOUSE IN POKHARA AND OTHER TALES, recounts his ruminations about house design and a detailed account of the planning, design and construction of the house he built for himself, with commentary about current building styles in Nepal, low-tech green building and the relative discomforts and advantages of houses he’d lived in.

That’s only half the book. The rest is letters he wrote home between 1962 and 1964 when he served as a Peace Corps volunteer. They tell what Nepal was like in those years, shortly after opening up to the rest of the world. They reveal Mike’s (understated) excitement about his experiences of this very different culture, about the surprises he encountered, his hopes and dreams and his growing love for Nepal.

The book includes 75 full color photographs.

A STONE HOUSE IN POKHARA is available in Northfield at “” and at the .

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