Reading Buddhis Fiction?

Hey, can't sleep again... so

Soul Grows in Darkness by Loren E. Pedersen
Born nearly deaf in a Chicago ghetto, Loren contends with poverty, drugs, prejudice, and terrifying violence. This murky landscape initiates his lifelong search for love, God, and truth.

Answers to his insatiable curiosity about life, death, and war are rare, but dreams and inner dialogues pose provocative questions that guide his journey.

Are memories, dreams, and unconscious promptings only opiates of a mind desperately coping with a chaotic, hopeless world? Or do they contain one’s truth?


Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree. Buddhist fiction?

Where Do We Go From Here? - Doris Dörrie (Bloomsbury, 2001)

Beautiful Ghosts Eliot Pattison (St. Martin’s, 2004)

Buddha Da. Anne Donovan
Jimmy, a Glasgow house painter who stumbles on the dharma, and the effect his conversion has on him, his wife, Liz, and their daughter.

Chögyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision Buddha By Fabrice Midal
Shambhala Publications, 2004 [non-fiction, biography] [supposed to be really good!]

Chögyam Trungpa was a Tibetan Buddhist king, who fled his homeland in 1959 with 350 of his people and found himself suddenly in the mist of the western world's twentieth century. Trungpa journeyed to Oxford University on a scholarship, eloped with a young English woman, travelled to north america, pioneered the teaching of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world, dressed to the nines.

Trungpa died prematuraly at 47, perhaps due to drinking, amongs other excesses.

It's Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path
By Dzigar Kongtrul

Why I Wake Early By Mary Oliver Beacon Press, 2005.