{"product_id":"my-year-of-dirt-and-tracy-franz-9781611720426","title":"My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan alone--and lonely--in Japan, she begins to pay attention.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Year of Dirt and Water\u003c\/em\u003e is a record of that journey. Allowed only occasional and formal visits to see her cloistered husband, Tracy teaches English, studies Japanese, and devotes herself to making pottery. Her teacher instructs her to turn cup after cup--creating one failure after another. Past and present, East and West intertwine as Tracy is twice compelled to return home to Alaska to confront her mother's newly diagnosed cancer and the ghosts of a devastating childhood. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevolving through the days, \u003cem\u003eMy Year of Dirt and Water\u003c\/em\u003e circles hard questions: What is love? What is art? What is practice? What do we do with the burden of suffering? The answers are formed and then unformed--a ceramic bowl born on the wheel and then returned again and again to dirt and water. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tracy Franz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611720427\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611720426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stone Bridge Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/26\/2018","brand":"Tracy Franz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052923875583,"sku":"9781611720426","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d86963f5-1c65-4744-9f4d-b85d2fed0dd8.jpg?v=1685021404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-year-of-dirt-and-tracy-franz-9781611720426","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}