God and Other Men: Religion, Romance, and the Search for Self-Love

On the February night her husband left, Myrna Smith felt the old demons of abandonment stir her soul. In God and Other Men, she takes us on an earnest but circuitous walk toward enlightenment, from adventures at a Japanese zendo and with Indian saints to a backwoods medium and a new lover. Eventually she glimpses the holy grail of self-acceptance but not at all in the way she expected.