Leza Lowitz lives in Tokyo with her husband, the writer Shogo Oketani, and their ten-year-old son. Through teaching, meditation, and community, she transcends her struggles and embraces the joys of adoption and motherhood. This inspiring memoir reflects the author's deep connection to yoga that allows her to realize that infertile does not mean inconceivable. Something is still not complete until she learns that when you give a little love to a child, you get the whole world in return. She travels to India to work on herself and back to California to deal with her past. Then, at forty-four, Leza and her Japanese husband seek to adopt-in a country where bloodlines are paramount and family ties are almost feudal in their cultural importance. Rather than struggle to fit in, she opens a yoga studio and makes a home for others. But she's still an outsider, and home is far away. When Leza moves to Japan and meets the man of her dreams, her heart opens in ways she never thought possible. Coming of age in Berkeley, California, during the sexual and feminist revolutions of the 1970s, she learned that marriage and family could wait. At thirty, Californian Leza Lowitz is single and traveling the world, which suits her just fine.
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