"The Buddhist on Death Row" Now Available for Preorder

After 200 visits to death row, 150 hours of recorded interviews, and countless hours of phone conversation over the course of 3 years, journalist David Sheff has now completed his memoir on Jarvis Jay Masters. The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place (Simon & Schuster) will be released on May 5, 2020. It is now available on pre-order here.

Though not a Buddhist himself, David learned a multitude of lessons from all the time he’s spent with Jarvis, which he shares with readers. Among those lessons: our astonishing capacity for change, the value of letting go of goals and embracing processes, and how to face pain head-on and rise above it, rather than avoiding it. This is a profound book about one man’s capacities for learning, enduring, and ultimately, inspiring others—capacities we all share.