Appalachian Zen

Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Prize for Memoir This luminous memoir combines the hardscrabble setting of Appalachia with the spiritual wisdom of Shunryu Suzuki’s classic  Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind . “Amazing and intense. A unique, entertaining, and valuable contribution to the Dharma literature,  Appalachian Zen  addresses a part of the Western Dharma world that hasn’t received much attention: class.” —Rev. Sumi Loundon Kim, Yale University, author of  Blue Jea