November 2018 Book, Breakfast with Buddha
The only thing certain about a journey is that it has a beginning and an end for you never know what may happen along the way. And so it is with this journey into the minds and souls of two very different men; one of them in search of the truth, the other a man who may have already found it. In Roland Merullo's novel, Breakfast with Buddha , Otto Ringling, a husband, father, and editor, departs on a cross-country drive from his home in a New York City suburb to the North Dakota farmhouse in which he grew up. H e is a man on a no-nonsense mission: to settle the estate of his recently deceased parents. However, when his flaky sister convinces him to give a ride to her guru, a crimson-robed Skovordinian monk, Otto knows there will be a few bumps in the road. As they venture across America, Otto and the affable, wise, irritating, and inscrutable holy man engage in a battle of wits and wisdom. Otto, a born skeptic, sees his unwanted passenger as a challenge: a man who assu