This is a weird one to classify. It reads like a memoir, and it's apparently based in part on a period in Millman's own life, but his website calls it a novel and there are significant parts of it that read like fiction, so that's what I'm going for. Heavily massaged fiction, constructed for the purpose of creating a self-help book based around some amorphous sort of spirituality that basically boils down to being aware of the world around you and your place in it. At the back of the copy I read there was a significant list of books, tapes, and courses you could buy to continue the journey, as it were, so it shills like a self-help book. There are some nice passages and the writing is clear and easy to read, but I couldn't take it seriously. The construction behind it all felt far too obvious, and far too pat.

Honestly, the most interesting part of it was the gymnastics.