Bestselling travel writer JEFF GREENWALD will speak about and sign his new memoir, Snake Lake.
Jeff Greenwald has traveled extensively through five continents, working as a writer, artist and photographer. He’s the bestselling author of Shopping for Buddhas, which has sold more than 100,000 copies, and The Size of the World. His writing has appeared in print and online in such publications as National Geographic Adventure, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, Tricycle and Salon.
Now, Greenwald travels to Kathmandu, Nepal, It’s a city of shimmering prayer flags, sacred cows, lavish festivals, and violent political turbulence—and a world he has come to call home. Snake Lake unfolds during 1990's dramatic “people power” uprising against Nepal’s long-entrenched monarchy. The story follows Greenwald as he wins the friendship of a high lama who reveals the pillars of Tibetan Buddhism, embarks on a passionate romance with a spunky but curiously unlucky news photographer, and discovers what democracy means to rural Nepali citizens—all while covering the revolution for a major American newspaper. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Greenwald's brilliant but troubled younger brother descends into a deepening depression. The author is forced to choose between witnessing Nepal’s long-overdue revolution and reconnecting with an alienated brother in desperate need of help.
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