Empty Chair: Two Novellas

Bruce Wagner
Publisher: Plume Books
December 30 2014
EAN: 9780142181232
ISBN: 0142181234

Synopsis: A profound and heart-wrenching work of spiritual storytelling from the internationally acclaimed author of Dead Stars

Celebrated for his "up-to-the-nanosecond insider's knowledge of the L.A. scene" (The Washington Post), Bruce Wagner takes his storytelling in a radically new direction with two linked novellas. In First Guru, a gay Buddhist living in Big Sur achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child's suicide. In Second Guru, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth.
Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to a fictional Wagner by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, these stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit.