Off The Yoga Mat - Softcover

Fish, Cheryl J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604893060 ISBN 13: 9781604893069

Publisher: Livingston Press, 2022

Synopsis

With age 40 looming, Nate, Nora, and Lulu find their lives unraveling, their aspirations dashed. Nate, dead broke, in his eighth year of graduate school delves into yoga. Nate's ex-girlfriend Nora finagles a position in Finland where she tries on men like miniskirts and embraces sisu, the Finnish concept of perseverance, in pursuit of motherhood. And yogi Lulu, Nate's talented teacher, yearns to get to the bottom of her nightmares of childhood abuse as she travels to her hometown, New Orleans, to care for her ailing mother.
OFF THE YOGA MAT explores jealousy, bends of the body, and the courage to confront traumatic memory. Told in alternating chapters by Nate, Lulu, and Nora, the novel takes the reader on three risky coming-of-middle age journeys through sensuality, emotional evolution, and breathing deep.
Contemporary Fiction. Upmarket/Literary fiction. Coming of Middle Age. Humor. Travel

About this title

About the Author

Cheryl J. Fish is a poet, fiction writer and environmental humanities scholar. Her recent books of poetry include Crater & Tower, on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of 9/11/01, and The Sauna Is Full Of Maids, poems and photographs celebrating Finnish sauna culture, the natural world, and friendships. She has been a Fulbright Professor and she teaches at City University of New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Livingston Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604893060
• ISBN 13: 9781604893069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282