Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness
In this memoir, Meston tells the wrenching tale of being put in a  Buddhist monastery as a child by his hippie parents, who had hopes of him  becoming a monk. Meston was born in 1970 to a father who was a self-taught  artist, and later descended into mental illness, and a mother who hailed from a  wealthy Hollywood family and became so enraptured by Buddhist teachings that  she became a nun in a Nepalese monastery. At age six, Meston was placed in a  large Tibetan foster family before entering the Kopan temple. The only  white-skinned boy, he was teasingly called White Eye and Rotten, and soon grew  bored by the tedious study and chores. He became rebellious, and was eventually  expelled for breaking his vow of celibacy and sent to live with relatives in  California. Meston spoke little English, had no formal education, and spent  years educating himself (he was eventually accepted at Brandeis). Meston later  worked for Tibetan rights issues, traveling to Tibet, where he created a cause  célèbre when he leaped out the window while under house arrest to  avoid interrogation by Chinese officials. Meston's (and Ansberry's) style is  journalistically cut-and-dried and occasionally stifles the emotional  turbulence that drives Weston's psychic journey, from abandoned child to lonely  immigrant and suicidal prisoner.(Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.