The Guru Looked Good: An Impious Memoir
by Marta Szabo
Price: $4.99 USD. 132930 words.
Published on June 21, 2011. Nonfiction.
The Guru Looked Good tells the real-life story of a young woman leaving her Manhattan life to join an internationally known yoga movement headed by a glamorous female guru--the same organization and guru featured in the bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love.
Set in a culture where it is impossible to speak one's mind, this is the story of a person unable to give up forever what she wants and who she is.
Location: United States
Member Since: June 17, 2011
Marta Szabo
Biography
Marta Szabo has been a writer and editor all her life. She was an editor in mass-market paperbacks then in magazines, interspersing these early careers with a serious pursuit of yoga and meditation. She lived in an ashram – a yogic monastery -- for over ten years, spending a year and a half in India.
Since leaving the ashram in 2000, Marta has pursued her own art, picking up an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and completing two book-length memoirs as well as hundreds of short pieces. She is much sought after as a skilled and sensitive editor.
Since leaving the ashram in 2000, Marta has pursued her own art, picking up an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and completing two book-length memoirs as well as hundreds of short pieces. She is much sought after as a skilled and sensitive editor.
Where to find Marta Szabo online
Website: http://AuthenticWriting.com
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Blog: http://the-guru-looked-good.blogspot.com
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Blog: http://the-guru-looked-good.blogspot.com