Author: Montag, Susan

Because the Tao "cannot be described," in Lao Tzu's famous phrase, the language of the Tao Te Ching is sometimes inscrutable to some readers. Susan Montag, a writer with a down-to-earth Midwestern sensibility, discovered two translations of the Taoist classic among her uncle's books after losing him to a sailing accident. In his memory, she has created a new translation that uses her "native tongue" of plainspoken English to make the essential wisdom of the text accessible to all readers.