num_pages: 288
description: In these essays, Pam Houston treats us to a celebration of her real-life adventures which range over five years and five continents. But whatever Houston's destination - whether Bhutan or Bolivia or Traverse City - it is only the starting point from which she extracts her personal emotional journey. She is searching here for a place - not too safe but not too threatening - from which to negotiate mountain goats and river ice, camping trips and wine. Through her we meet some good dogs, a few good men, and the occasional grizzly. There's a horse named Roany with the presence of a Zen master. And there's a Buddhist named Karma, all proving what Houston has always fiction has nothing on real life.
language: English
title: A Rough Guide To The Heart
titlecomplete: A Rough Guide To The Heart
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Little Brown Paperbacks (a&C)