AustLit

'Prepare to be swept away by a story that is intimate,true, and utterly compelling. Margi Gibb's much-loved father dies and, with her immediate family largely gone, her life is changed irrevocably. Immersing herself more deeply in art and music, she travels to America to study the sacred art of the mandala, exploring the wisdom traditions of Indigenous Indian peoples in the process. Then after a serendipitous encounter back in Australia she travels to Dharamsala to care for children in an after school program at a Tibetan women's handicraft cooperative. Her underlying passion is to initiate guitar lessons for Tibetan refugees. What follows is unexpected. Margi's developing bonds with two very different Tibetan men, Tenzin and Yonten, change her life in complex and enduring ways. Eventually she journeys to Tibet.

'Kissed by a Deer is a book about East and West. It is a passionate quest forthe personal and intellectual truth that only comes through lived experience.Gibb's story gives us amazing places, and wonderful characters, people we cometo love and care about despite their failings. In its pages, wisdom searchinglyfinds its humble roots in the connections of heart, imagination and mind; inthe midst of the act of living.' (Publication summary)