*2018 Best Book Awards Finalist - Eastern Religion category

Glen Choi is on a mission to find where he belongs. Growing up Korean in Canada and caught between cultural worlds, he embarks on a journey to South Korea as a young adult to explore his ethnic roots and fulfill his purpose in life. Once there, he discovers his body may be Eastern but his mind is Western. Choi's search for his one true passion also takes him into the wilderness of new and daring career paths, from academia to the Zen Buddhist monkhood to even traditional Korean opera. The epic journey transforms him, and eventually his understanding of the heart of the Buddhist teachings.
Heartwarming and profound, Beginning, Middle & Zen is a coming-of-age memoir about the power of vulnerability and the quest for truth.