Fed up with teenage life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse"s Siddharth a and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Equal parts spiritual memoir and surfer"s tale, this is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great salty blue.