PERRY GARFINKEL, a longtime contributor to The New York Times and a former features editor for the Martha’s Vineyard Times, is the author of four books. He wrote his national bestseller “Buddha or Bust” (Harmony, 2006) while living in West Tisbury for 7 years. His newest book, “Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma’s 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times” (Sounds True, 2024), is a transformational nonfiction memoir. He now lives in Berkeley, California, but his soul still resides in West Tisbury. perrygarfinkel.com
