Where Grown Ups Stop Seeing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798251399615)

There comes a moment when you realize you've been living the wrong life.

For Tom, that moment arrives all at once: a job that drains him dry, the wrong people by his side, and a silence he can no longer find. He decides to drop everything and fly to Japan - no plan, no destination. Just a desperate need to disappear for a while.

But Japan doesn't let itself be crossed in silence.

In the mountains of Yamagata, Tom stumbles upon a Yamabushi - a solitary ascetic, keeper of an ancient spiritual practice almost entirely unknown in the West: Shugendō. It's not a meeting he sought. It's not a story of easy enlightenment. It's something stranger, more real, harder to explain.

Where Grown Ups Stop Seeing is a novel that tastes of morning mist, stone-path footsteps, and silences that speak louder than words. A book for those who have gazed at Japan through travel guides and always felt there was something else - deeper, quieter, hidden in plain sight.

"He went looking for silence. Instead, he found something he didn't yet have a name for."

If you love the real Japan - far from the clichés - this book is for you.