Jake Fades

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by David Guy

Genre: Other9

Published: 1996

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Jake is a Zen masterand expert bicycle repairman who fixes flats and teaches meditation out of ashop in Bar Harbor, Maine. Hank is his long-time student. Theaging Jake hopes that Hank will take over teaching for him. But thecommitment-phobic Hank doesn't feel up to the job, and Jake is beginning toexhibit behavior that looks suspiciously like Alzheimer's disease. Is a guywith as many "issues" as Hank even capable of being a Zen teacher? And arethose paradoxical things Jake keeps doing some kind of koan-like wisdom . . .or just dementia?Theseand other hard questions confront Hank, Jake, and the colorful cast ofcharacters they meet during a week-long trip to the funky neighborhood of Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.As they trek back and forth from bar to restaurant to YMCA to Zen Centerto doughnut shop, answers arise—in the usual unexpected ways. Click here to listen to the author, David Guy, discuss Jake Fades on North...

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