Dessert with Buddha

Name: Dessert with Buddha
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Roland Merullo
ISBN: 9798350830842

Author: Roland Merullo

Series: Breakfast with Buddha #4

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/15/2023

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

Dessert with Buddha takes the eccentric, sort-of-Buddhist monk, Volya Rinpoche, and his skeptical, middle-of-the-road brother-in-law, Otto Ringling, on another enlightening road trip filled with meals, humor, social commentary, and good times. On this journey, the couple that traveled from New York to North Dakota in Breakfast with Buddha, Seattle to North Dakota in Lunch with Buddha, and North Dakota to Las Vegas in Dinner with Buddha heads down the Eastern Seaboard from Boston to points south.

Along the way, they meet an array of intriguing characters, tour some famous American sights, and enjoy the kinds of conversations about spirituality that have engrossed hundreds of thousands of listeners from China to Turkey to Croatia, and throughout the United States.

Otto's sister, Cecelia, his daughter Natasha, son Anthony, and niece Shelsa, all have small but important roles in the story, as the famous duo pilots a hybrid pickup along back roads and superhighways, toward the series' climactic finish.

Dessert with Buddha enhances the series the way a delicious dish of ice cream or slice of homemade pie enhances a great meal. Enjoy the trip!

About Roland Merullo

Roland Merullo is the critically acclaimed author of several books, both fiction and nonficton, including the Revere Beach trilogy, three novels about growing up in a tight-knit community outside Boston, and Golfing with God, a novel about a man's unexpected spiritual journey. Born in Boston, he graduated from Brown University, where he also earned a Master's degree in Russian Language and Literature. Roland's memoir, Revere Beach Elegy, won the 2000 Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Reader's Digest, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. He lives with his wife and two daughters in eastern Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen d hoover on May 10, 2023

What a satisfying conclusion to the Buddha series! I chuckled, wept, and had my spirit uplifted as I read. I hope that Otto, Seese, Shelsa, Natasha, and Anthony will appear in future Merullo books. I think Shelsa in particular would make a good protagonist and look forward to a book or four starring......more

Goodreads review by Peter on May 16, 2023

This could be the final and capstone novel in a series that has enjoyed great and much deserved popularity. As usual Merullo combines his understanding of life with his great talent for telling a story that is at once humorous and wise. It Desert with Buddha is, indeed, the last in this series, I am......more

Goodreads review by Debbi on May 28, 2023

I was unpleasantly surprised by the last installment of the Breakfast with Buddha series. Otto Ringling, previously an every man character in the first three books evolves into a sanctimonious judgmental guy. He has opinions on every subject from Ukraine to obesity. Every possible issue in our curre......more

Goodreads review by Jt on August 10, 2023

I've read all the meals with Buddah books by Roland Merullo. I was delighted to discover this most recent one while browsing in my local indie bookstore. Throughout all the books, I've enjoyed the narrator's many and varied adventures. Otto and his influential and holy brother in law have traveled t......more

Goodreads review by Helen on March 04, 2025

Like Chad and Jeremy sang decades ago: they say that all good things must end one day, autumn leaves must fall… But i really didn’t want this series to end. I’ll miss Rimp I gave it 5 stars because i enjoyed it so much- not because of it being extraordinary literature. It begins with the invasion of Uk......more