Lisa Jaeggi is the adopted child of a Kasmiri sheep wrangler. She learned the esoteric art of trinket totem manufacture in the Karakorem range. Being Japanese in a Indian/Pakistani/Chinese Bermuda triangle would have led to intractable discord, but a powerful pair of clip-on earrings forged in the belly of a volcano were enough to dispel any ill will. After small arms and hand-to-hand combat training were complete, Lisa hitch-hiked down the silk road and signed on to a freighter in Beirut bound for Brooklyn, after a vacation in Puntland Somalia.

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