Lunch with Buddha

Name: Lunch with Buddha
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Roland Merullo
ISBN: 9781494578886

Author: Roland Merullo

Series: Breakfast with Buddha #2

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/10/2015

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

A novel about family, open-minded spirituality, and the American road, Lunch with Buddha accompanies the characters from Breakfast with Buddha as they move further along the path toward lasting peace of mind. Facing one of life's greatest emotional challenges, Otto Ringling takes comfort in a loving family and offbeat lessons from the eccentric spiritual teacher Volya Rinpoche. Funny at times, heartbreaking at others, Lunch with Buddha offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the life we live now.

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 Marlowe01247

am notorious for my cynicism. Show me a book that carries an "upbeat" message, and I'll show you a new way to light my wood stove. It's not just the soupiness or the upbeatitude of the message that bothers me, either. After all, we all need our fantasies. Rather it is the implicit arrogance in the......more

Goodreads review by Amy

I am still trying to process this book. That is why I only gave it 3 stars. I might need to go back and change the rating later, but something about it just didn't sit right with me. I felt Otto was more worried about food than anything else. There was more time spent on his own musing than instruct......more