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Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude

From Neal Pollack, acclaimed author of Alternadad and The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, comes Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude. Here is the hilarious but true account of an overweight, balding, skeptical guy who undergoes a miraculous transformation into a healthy, blissful, obsessively dedicated yoga fiend.

Subject
healthbiography
Genre
humor
Mood
funny
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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