Breakfast with Buddha a novel [WorldCat Entities]

"At the behest of his sister, Otto Ringling finds himself reluctantly accompanying her guru, an enigmatic Mongolian monk, on a trip through Middle America to their childhood home, introducing his passenger to some American "fun" along the way."@en
"At the behest of his sister, Otto Ringling finds himself reluctantly accompanying her guru, an enigmatic Mongolian monk, on a trip through Middle America to their childhood home, introducing his passenger to some American "fun" along the way."
"When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger--and amuse himself--he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world--and more important, his life--through someone else's eyes. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing."
"When Otto Ringling departs on a cross-country drive from his New York City home to his deceased parents' North Dakota farm to settle the estate, his sister convinces him to give a ride to her guru, a crimson-robed Skovorodinian monk, to whom she is giving her half of the inheritance."
"Otto and his sister Cecilia have inherited a farm in North Dakota. His sister decides to donate her half of the farm to her guru, Volvo Rinpoche, and insisits that Otto take him to see the farm. Merullo's novel is funny yet meaningful."