Breakfast with Buddha is a 2007 spiritual conversion narrative novel by American author Roland Merullo. According to this story, Otto Ringling, an editor of food books who lives in New York and a skeptic, reluctantly goes onto a road trip with Volya Rinpoche, a Siberian monk. This story, narrated in the first person by Otto, describes Otto's thoughts and beliefs, his conversations with the Rinpoche, and how he gains new perspectives on the world as well as his life, as a result of Volya Rinpoche's company. This book was well received in general, with readers awarding it 4 stars out of 5 on average on the Barnes & Noble website and an average of 4.6 stars out of 5 on the Borders website. It was also well received by book reviewers.A sequel, Lunch with Buddha, was released in Fall 2012. Source: Wikipedia (en)