Sleeping With Buddha: A Novel

by Alika S. Yon

This heartbreaking and beautiful debut novel tells the haunting story of a courageous woman's life and her family's saga in Korea from the 1940's to the 1980's.

Betrothed to a man she has never seen before, Suni must leave the protection of her own precious family in order to dutifully serve her new husband and in-laws. Dealing with Confucian values, the Korean War, ill-fated family relationships, abandonment, poverty, and Korea's modernization, Suni struggles through the agonies of life and the challenges of motherhood. At times, her very survival as well as that of her family is threatened. She ultimately prevails and produces beauty and greatness in her own special way -- as a believer in both Buddhism and Shamanism.

This novel presents an intimate and unique life story of an able and emotionally strong Korean woman, and yet it also conveys the universal themes of motherhood and human struggle that appeals to all of us across cultures.

242 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 22, 2016