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If you make a purchase through one of these links, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. It's noticeable now how in a lot of these she is either passive and resigned, and doesn't really imagine doing them differently (despite her and Jimmy being old punks), or thinks contrary to present-day received wisdom.

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I found this one a bit of a slow starter for me and only just finished by the skin of my teeth since the chat is tonight but I absolutely loved that it was done from three character POV. Yet it also refuses the tidy solutions and moral lessons that readers of popular fiction often demand, and along the way illustrates how everyday experiences can be mindful. There are many other books I've read more from - and not continued with on account of merely not feeling like it or not having time - that didn't feel 'unfinished', like a small defeat, in the same way. I found myself engrossed in the characters, and being from a working class Glaswegian background, I love when books are written in Glaswegian dialect.Liz is furious when he misses Ann-Marie's appearance in the school play to go and see a visiting Tibetan lama, and even more so when he declines the annual New Year's Eve family piss-up in favour of sitting on his own meditating.

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Jimmy's attraction to Buddhism - he found something that gave him some peace and clarity in his life but it wasn't something he discussed with his friends or family or was able to explain to them. What I love about the story is the focus on ordinary people and day to day problems like coping with children growing up, marriages getting stale, aging relatives, midlife identity crises, religion in the modern world, immigration so on .

As you read it out loud, you start to get a feel for the words in your mouth and you can actually begin to hear the dialogue much clearer. After reading a lot of heroic fantasy in which nothing less than the total destruction of the world is acceptable as the main plot, it is refreshing to recognize characters that I could meet on the street tonight, the kind of people I visit on weekends or I hang out with in the evenings. This rang very true to me from when I was younger, how it was all about shared interests, resonant experiences with family and unselfconsciously talking about your respective heritages, in these two's case Punjabi Sikh and Irish Catholic. Thus, whether you’re religious or not, the Lady Buddha Linh Unh Pagoda in Danang should not be missed.