ABOUT THE BOOKAt first glance "Of Yahweh and the Buddha" seems to be an amusing "New Age" fantasy, but there is more. The Paradise Papers can be understood as a revision of the Book of Genesis, rewritten to explore the personalities and emotions of Adam, Eve, Lucifer and Yahweh, as well as leading angels. Intractable questions of Christian theology are presented as human issues and examined through the lens of gentle satire. At the heart of this novella is the tragic love story of Adam and Eve. It is a dark comedy and provides a link to the second novella, White Crows on Morada Lane. But here there is no comedy at all, only heartbreak. The subtitle of this novella is A Karmic Tragedy. The novella explores the nature of awakening from a Buddhist perspective, but a one-sided awakening that results in sorrow not enlightenment.Both novellas deal with the spirit and the heart, but in different ways. Like Adam and Eve, Jack and Nita are doomed in their love. White Crows ends with recollections of a previous life in which Nita and Jack came to understand the rich complexities of commitment.These novellas offer striking contrasts, including time, memory, and the fundamental nature of religion, and at a deeper level karmic destiny and the character of love itself.