The Daughters of Joy: An Adventure of the Heart

by Deepak Chopra

Overview

An inspiring story of the search for love and redemption from Deepak Chopra, the “poet-prophet of alternative medicine” (Time) and New York Times bestselling author of The Healing Self.

Jess Conover is going about his daily grind as an aspiring writer in Boston when he finds a classified ad in the newspaper he believes is meant specifically for him: Love has found you. Tell no one, just come.His odyssey takes him to a school run by a group of women who call themselves the Daughters of Joy—and who will open Jess’s heart up to a world he never envisioned could exist...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451209351
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.35(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.67(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

DEEPAK CHOPRA MD, MD, FACP, FRCP founder of The Chopra Foundation, a non-profit entity for research on well-being and humanitarianism, and Chopra Global, a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is also an Honorary Fellow in Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He is the author of over 90 books translated into over forty-three languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of their top 100 most influential people.” www.deepakchopra.com

Hometown:

La Jolla, California

Date of Birth:

October 22, 1946

Place of Birth:

New Delhi, India

Education:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Editorial Reviews

More New Age yarnspinning from pop guru Chopra (Soulmate, 2001, etc.), this time about a young Boston writer's quest for spiritual fulfillment. Plenty of people have trouble settling down in their 20s. Take Jess Conover. At 28, Jeff is still an aspiring writer (emphasis on "aspiring") who ekes out a living as the rewrite man at a weekly paper in Boston. Jeff's girlfriend Renee recently left him, but they're still in touch and may get back together. Meanwhile, Jeff's older sister Linny, married and with children, is eager for Jeff to find himself and raise a family. But Jeff just can't make the commitment. All in all, Jeff is a normal American twentysomething (i.e., a superannuated adolescent). Then one day he finds an intriguing classified ad in the Boston Globe: "Love has found you. Tell no one, just come." The ad also lists a New Hampshire phone number and (most mysterious of all) the initials "JC" (as in Jeff Conover). Jeff calls and is told to drive to New Hampshire immediately. There's a blizzard raging outside and his ancient Camry has bald tires and a weak transmission, but he hits the road without a second thought and drives straight to the address he was given. There, he meets Dolly, an older lady who is known as a "wise woman," and Elena, who is about Jeff's age. Dolly and Elena are part of a secret society called the Daughters of Joy, and their mission is to initiate Jeff into "the subtle world" of spiritual bliss. This entails out-of-body experiences, hallucinations and dreams, and a lot of talk about love and mystery. Eventually, Jeff and Elena start a mystery school in Boston to carry on the work of enlightening the spiritually precocious. And Jeff finally finds out what thepoint of his life is. More catechism than novel-with wooden characters, minimal plot, and dialogue so absurd ("a mystery school . . . is a place where you learn that love is a mystery") that even Kahlil Gibran would break out laughing.

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