Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America

Natalie Goldberg. Bantam, $16 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-553-37315-8

Goldberg's effective, unadorned account of her own development and transformation through the practice of writing and the study of Zen Buddhism. (Mar.)

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