Eric Weiner is on another quest. In his first book he looked for the world's happiest places, now he tackles a more controversial subject of religion. Weiner, the self proclaimed gastronomical Jew of no particular religious leaning goes shopping for religion, which takes him across the globe in o...
Hachette Book Group, 2011, 349 pp., $26.99 ISBN 978-0-53947-0Man Seeks GodEric Weiner“Have you found your God yet?” This is the question that started the wonderfully written non-fiction book, Man Seeks God. The author Eric Weiner had to go to th...
Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. Unhappy people living in profoundly unstable states, he notes, inspire pathos and make for good copy, but not for good karma. So Weiner, admitted grump and self-help book...
It is served in a glass teapot, with chrysanthemum buds floating in the hot water like lilies in a Vermont pond.I pour carefully, handling the pot with the sort of hypervigilant care typically reserved for surgical instruments or very small children. Slowly, I take a sip. It tastes like beauty. G...