The author of Breakfast with Buddha brings his characteristic whimsy to a new novel about New York book editor Otto Ringling and Mongolian monk Volya Rinpoche, who embark on a road trip from Rinpoches meditation center in North Dakota to the glitter and glitz of the Las Vegas strip. What prompts the trip is Ottos recently altered life, having lost first his wife, then his job, and then seeing both his children leave home for lives of their own. With Rinpoches guidance, he hopes to find a new meaning in his life, and a new direction. But what begins as a quietly contemplative journey becomes much more, as the two men travel through the heart of the American midwest, witnessing the decimated lives of so many American natives and giving Otto new perspective on the trials he is experiencing in his own life.
