Talking To High Monks In The Snow: An Asian American Odyssey

Lydia Minatoya does not exactly talk to monks, high or low, in the snow. The title of her first book is borrowed from its epigraph, an excerpt from a work by seventeenth century author Chen Jiru that records details from an attentive life. TALKING TO HIGH MONKS IN THE SNOW records details from the forty-two years of an attentive Japanese American.