Personal Memoirs

The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: One Woman's Fight to Save Two Orphans of War

AN American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God

Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World

Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity

Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria

Turtle Feet: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk

Please Excuse My Daughter:

Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir

The Bond: Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with Their Fathers

Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother