Diamond Sutra

This stunningly realized first novel is driven by swift, sharp dialogue and beautifully crystallized scenes. Forty-year-old Rudyard Gillette flees home, job, and girlfriend to search for his childhood sweetheart, a beautiful, enigmatic woman who has suddenly disappeared. Traveling alongside Rud, the reader is swept into a world of alcohol, ball-parks, suicide, and Zen, with humor and enlightenment never far away.