Named a Best Book of 2008 by "Library Journal"
In a series of moving vignettes, the author begins by describing
a particular representation of Water-Moon Kuan Yin, a Buddhist
teacher and goddess associated with compassion, who often sits on a
precarious overhang or floats on a flimsy petal. Then Kuan Yin
steps out of the frame to join the author in the mundane challenges
of caring for her father-transferring his health insurance,
struggling with a wheelchair van, managing adult diapers, or
playing in the fictions of dementia. From perplexed to poignant to
funny, the vignettes record the working-class English of a fading
but still wise dad, and they find other human versions of Kuan Yin
in a doctor who will still make house calls or kind strangers in
the street.
The book includes ten illustrations: both classical
representations of Kuan Yin and also the author's own drawings,
which adapt Kuan Yin in an act of practical spirituality, reading
art through life and life through art. Each vignette invites the
harried caregiver to take a deep breath and meditate on the trials
and joys of caring for an aging parent.
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