She is afraid she's losing her mind and she seeks help in all the usual places but its very unsatisfying. She starts to have some strange thing happening, hearing the voice of a frightened woman. She's a successful lawyer living in a New York highrise. The book starts with Julia in this novel as it did in Heartbeats. I read it in May of 2015 and was also concerned that maybe too much time had passed between that novel and this but I rediscovered what I loved about that story pretty quickly. There is more to the story and I want to hear it all! I was concerned about picking up a sequel to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats because I loved it so much. I am so sad that I have reached the end of this book. It was apparent that the author wanted to produce another sequel, which I am not sure I will read. What happened with Julia’s own internal wounds from her breakup? Did Nu Nu get closure after Julia sleeping with her son? (My initial reaction was “ew!!” ) Not only Thar Thar was Nu Nu’s son (the voice inside Julias head, he was said to be a monk running a monastery! SERIOUSLY?! I might not and many other practitioners might not bring alcohol, but I can let that go as a character development.Ī lot of things just don’t seem to add up. I’m willing to overlook the fact that Julia and her best friend smuggled wine into Buddhist meditation center in New York. So at first I was surprised to learn about the encounter of Julia with the monk at the meditation center in New York.
A typical real Burmese Buddhist monk does not touch women. While a lot of situations narrated in this story might be true, it was disturbing and troubling to question the author’s research on the proper practices of a Burmese Buddhist monks. I admire the research the author has done, and also his writing. I am a native Burmese and I’m sorry to say this book has disappointed me. This spirited sequel, like The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, explores the most inspiring and passionate terrain: the human heart. Interwoven with Julia’s story is that of a Burmese woman named Nu Nu who finds her world turned upside down when Burma goes to war and calls on her two young sons to be child soldiers. Why do you live alone? To whom do you feel close? What do you want in life? Not only does the female voice refuse to disappear, but it starts to ask questions Julia has been trying to avoid. In the following days, her crisis only deepens. One day, in the middle of an important business meeting, she hears a stranger’s voice in her head that causes her to leave the office without explanation. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered a miscarriage, and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing HeartbeatsĪlmost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country.
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