Title: a good magazine article stretched into a mediocre book
Product review: This book is a story of the author's personal adventures rather than a intelligent exploration of Judaism, so if you're looking for the latter don't bother to read it. If the most entertaining and interesting portions of this book had been boiled down into a magazine article, it would have been a cute, amusing 15 minute read. A few of the stories I liked--her antecdotes about the mikveh gave me a better feel for what that ritual was all about, and I think I understand the Jew/Buddhist relationship a bit better than I did a few days ago. But I'm not sure it should have been turned into a full book, and she padded it out with bits of silly whining (in the "why won't the rabbi help me marry a gentile" vein) and stories of utterly icky behavior (misc. tattoos, including the very last story). At the end of the book I was left thinking "Eeew, Gross!" Bottom line: worth skimming but not worth reading.
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