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Book Tour–An Atlas of Impossible Longing

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Book Description   Already a sensation around the world:  family life meets historical romance in an astonishing novel about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of a writer who richly deserves her international acclaim. On the outskirts of a small town in Bengal, a family lives in solitude in their vast new house.  Here, lives intertwine and unravel.  A widower struggles with his love for an unmarried cousin.  Bakul, a motherless daughter, runs wild with Mukunda, an orphan of unknown caste adopted by the family.  Confined in a room at the top of the house, a matriarch goes slowly mad; her husband searches for its cause as he shapes and reshapes his garden. As Mukunda and Bakul grow, their intense closeness matures into something else, and Mukunda is banished to Calcutta.  He prospers in the turbulent years after Partition, but his thoughts stay with his home, with Bakul, with all that he has lost – and he knows tha

Review–Midnight With The Mystic

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  Book Description   Constructed around a series of late night conversations around a camp fire between Cheryl Simone and Sadhguru Vasudev on an Island in the middle of a Western North Carolina lake near her mountain home, Midnights with the Mystic is the most thorough exposition of the teachings of India's most sought after mystic. Sadhguru challenges us to embrace the possibility that to each of us is available a higher realm of reality, a peak of consciousness; an entrance into the realm of freedom and bliss. Concrete and down-to-earth, Midnights with the Mystic both provides readers with an introduction to profound spiritual teaching and a personal glimpse of a charismatic guru.   Book Review   Having been lost and searching for a long time myself, it was very easy to relate to Cheryl’s struggle to find inner peace.  I too had gone from one teacher to another in hopes of finding what was missing within me. Cheryl found the path that was right for her.