On the Way to Casa Lotus: A Memoir of Family, Art, Injury and Forgiveness

This is the gripping true story of Junco Margains journey coming to terms with the permanent consequences of a surgeons devastating mistake. Mindful that even good people make errors and that vengeance would not mend her broken body or soul, she chooses instead to embark on a quest for peace and healingbeginning by seeking space in her heart to forgive. Deeply compassionate, wise, and poetic, On the Way to Casa Lotus lays bare some of the most poignant contradictions of the human condition, blurring the distinctions between guilt and neglectfulness, anger and sorrow, humility and shame, gratitude and despair. Rich with imagery and metaphors from the world of contemporary art, and brimming with scenes from the authors close-knit, abundantly loving Mexican family, the book plants a seed of hope that loss and pain can serve a higher purpose: one of promoting forgiveness as a force for personal and universal change.