Jake Fades

-Longtime Buddhist practitioner Guy explores the Zen zone in this low-key tale of meditation, mentoring, and mouth-watering baked goods.---Booklist -The Buddhist lessons of impermanence and letting go are folded into a contemporary urban story of drifters and their teachers in this sweet novel. . . . The conversational first-person narration draws the reader in, as does the eminently likable Jake.---Kirkus Reviews -Guy conveys through Hank's koanlike interior commentary and Jake's dialogue, the subtleties of Zen practice. Readers into the dharma will find this novel worthwhile.---Publishers Weekly -In the frolicsome, playful novel about Zen Buddhism, death, and sexuality, [Guy] beautifully conveys the impermanence of life. . . . Jake Fades gives sex and death the respect they deserve.---Spirituality & Practice -Jake Fades is a book written with an uncommon clarity: a story by a real storyteller. Like all good books, it's about many things: Buddhism--sure, that's there--but it's also about the families we're born into and the families we make for ourselves. Sit. Read.---Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and The Watermelon King -A wonderfully entertaining and admirably down-to-earth story about Zen, beer, sex, and real people in real life--not the make-believe Zen of your dreams.---David Chadwick, author of Crooked Cucumber and Thank You and OK!