By Roland Merullo

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / Workman Publishing Company
Fiction / Midwest Regional Interest
Hardcover, $23.95
ISBN-13 978-1-56512-552-0

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About the Book

“Merullo writes such a graceful, compassionate and fluid prose that you cannot resist the characters’ very real struggles and concerns. His prose is as wonderfully down-to-earth as his tale is heaven-sent… Do I think Merullo is a fine, perceptive writer who can make you believe just about anything? Absolutely.”
- Providence (RI) Sunday Journal

Otto Ringling is a straight-laced publishing executive with two kids, a lovely wife, a fine home in an upscale New York suburb, and a nagging suspicion that something in his life is missing. How, then, does he end up traveling through Middle America with a berobed Mongolian monk? Ah. The real questions to ask is, Why?

In BREAKFAST WITH BUDDHA, Roland Merullo has tackled his most ambitious subject to date, and in the process takes the reader on an unforgettable journey into the minds of two very different men as they travel together across America.

As they venture from New York on their way to North Dakota, Otto sees his unwanted passenger (a colleague of his flaky sister) as a challenge, a man who assumes the wisdom of the ages but walks a mortal’s path, and he views their unexpected pairing as an opportunity to take this holy man on a tour through the heart of America. Without realizing it, however, it is Otto who has embarked on the real journey, one of personal self-discovery, and by the time they reach North Dakota his head is reeling with a new kind of awareness, and a recognition that for him a whole new journey is about to begin. In Roland Merullo’s masterful hands, Otto’s story unfolds with all the wonder, bemusement, and wry humor of a man who unwittingly finds what he’s missing in the most unexpected place.

Roland Merullo is the critically acclaimed author of seven books, including the Revere Beach Trilogy, three novels about growing up in a tight-knit community outside Boston, and Golfing with God, a novel about a man’s unexpected spiritual journey. He is a master storyteller who makes his readers think and laugh while they’re doing it, and he has been widely praised in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, to mention a few. Merullo lives with his wife and two daughters in Massachusetts.

Please read this witty, inventive, and remarkably moving novel as soon as you can. We know you’ll love it as much as we do! It quickly will become one of your hand-sell favorites and top book club recommendations!