A Journey With Elsa Cloud

After receiving a call from her estranged daughter, Leila flew to India and together mother and daughter travelled the subcontinent on an interior and exterior journey toward understanding, culminating in a meeting with the Dalai Lama. The story is enlivened by descriptions and lyrical prose.

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A Journey with Elsa Cloud starts when Leila, the engaging narrator, receives a call from an estranged daughter who, while living in the East, has become a student of Buddhism. Leila flies to India, and together mother and daughter travel through the subcontinent on an interior and exsterior journey toward understanding culminating in a visit with the Dalai Lama.


This moving mother and daughter story is enlivened by richly textured descriptions and lyrical prose.


`The best travel book I’ve ever read.’ -Norman Mailer