Breakfast With Buddha a novel

ISBN: 9781565126596 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1565126599 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2008.

Summary: When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger--and amuse himself--he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world--and more important, his life--through someone else's eyes. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing.