num_pages: 192
description: They hadn't pictured themselves as the sort of people to take up Eastern spiritual practice. But on their first visit to a Zen center, two women discover something that speaks to them on a level deeper than their everyday experience, and they begin to make a new plan for their lives. What if they were to give up their suburban comforts and build a house beside a monastery in the mountains?As the walls of the house go up, the two women make and re-make plans, wrestle with a chainsaw, learn to make windows, and set up a computer powered by the sun. Their spiritual practice transforms their vision of the house, and the building of it transforms them both. But their endeavor leads to an ending, not a beginning -- at least not the kind of beginning they'd had in mind . . ."A moving meditation on life, death, love, and Zen Buddhism." Feminist Bookstore News
language: English
title: The Earth House
titlecomplete: The Earth House
genres: Memoir, Queer, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Nonfiction
publisher: Ballantine Books