A Journey with Elsa Cloud The author recounts her experiences traveling to India at the invitation of her daughter, whom she had not seen in two years, and describes overcoming misconceptions about India, her daughter, and herself Full description
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Ravishing . . . No traveler, armchair or otherwise, should be deprived of this book’s ripe pleasures.”—Publishers Weekly
“In prose as heady as an old Delhi spice market, Leila Hadley invites us along on . . . a mother’s journey in search of her daughter, and herself.”—The Washington Post Book World
In a memoir that Norman Mailer called “the best travel book I’ve ever read,” Leila Hadley records a journey to India inspired both by her lifelong love of travel and by a desire to reconcile with her estranged daughter Veronica, who was living in India and studying Buddhism. The book’s title comes from Veronica’s remark as a young girl that she wanted to be “the sea, the jungle, or else a cloud,” thereby earning her the homonymic endearment of Elsa Cloud. A Journey with Elsa Cloud describes the sensuous delights of India; explains sexual mores and myths of India; and speaks tellingly about a memorable cast of characters, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A Journey with Elsa Cloud is the record of a journey, a love story, and a beautiful work of art.
Leila Hadley is a cofounder of Wings Trust, dedicated to literary and educational projects in the field of women's studies; a consulting editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review; and an elected member of PEN and the Explorers Club. She is the author of the award-winning Give Me the World, A Fielding's Guide to Traveling with Children in Europe, and other books. She lives in New York.
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