<blockquote> <p>"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"</p> </blockquote> <p>One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's <i>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</i> is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.</p>