Aama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart

Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny Nepalese village, was living high in the Himalayas when she befriended American Peace Corps worker Broughton Coburn in 1974. In 1988, Aama came to visit him—on a trip prescribed by village priests as a way for the eighty-four-year-old, four-foot-eight woman to earn merit by making a difficult journey late in life. 

Aama in Americais a vivid chronicle of what became a twenty-five-state, coast-to-coast adventure. Guided by t…