The Buddha Sat Right Here, Dena Moes
The Buddha Sat Right Here, Dena Moes
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The Buddha Sat Right Here
A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal

Author: Dena Moes

Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2022

Synopsis

Dena was a busy midwife trapped on the hamster wheel of working motherhood. Adam was an eccentric Buddhist yogi passing as a hard-working dad. Bella was fourteen and wanted to be normal. Sophia was up for anything that involved skipping school. Together, they shouldered backpacks, walked away from their California life of all-night births, carpool schedules, and Cal Skate, and criss-crossed India and Nepal for eight months—a journey that led them to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the tree where the Buddha sat, and the arms of Amma the Divine Mother.From the banks of the Ganges to the Himalayan roof of the world, this enthralling memoir is an unforgettable odyssey, a moving meditation on modern family life, and a spiritual quest, written with humor and honesty—and filled with love and awe.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader

An exciting and enlightening journey! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Dena and Adam are a charismatic couple with children. Dena works long hours as a midwife and is struggling to find the work/life/mom balance. Adam is a Buddhist yogi. Bella is fourteen and grappling with being a teenager, while Sophia is easy to conv......more

Goodreads review by Laura • lauralovestoread

I’ve been reading so many memoirs lately, and loving it! The Buddha Sat Right Here was one of the best that I’ve read though, as I imagined Dena and her family doing something courageous and exciting. To up and leave your home, and all of the conveniences, and travel to another country, was admirabl......more

Goodreads review by Melina

This book is a spectacular break from the customary memoir form: rather than writing about her daughters as subjects that populate her own life, she includes their own writing in the book. This genre-bending choice is reflective of the author's perspective of children as human beings with core rights......more

Goodreads review by Marlena

It’s actually not easy to write a review of The Buddha Sat Right Here because it is so rich with adventure in India and Nepal, with the transformative meanings of Buddhism, with the practice of midwifery in a California town, with the particularities of a young American family who exhibit a profound......more

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