Boyhood
David Keenan
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Buddha Da follows Jimmy, a Glaswegian painter and decorator whose new devotion to Buddhism begins to reshape his family life and strain his marriage. As his search for spiritual meaning deepens, those closest to him struggle with the changes it brings. For readers of character-driven literary fiction about faith, family and everyday life.
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In Glasgow, Anne Marie’s da, Jimmy, has always been game for a laugh. A painter and decorator, he is the kind of man whose stories come with a wink, so when he tells the family he is taking up meditation at the Buddhist Centre in town, no one quite believes he means it.
But Jimmy keeps going. As he becomes more involved in his search for the spiritual, something in him shifts, and his new beliefs begin to rub against the needs of his wife, Liz. The familiar rhythms of family life start to strain, and small cracks appear where there had been ease.
With grace, humour and humility, Anne Donovan’s debut follows one man’s search for a higher power, and the quiet upheaval it brings. In reaching for meaning, Jimmy risks loosening his grip on the thing that has held him closest.
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