Excerpt: "Dani Shapiro's memoir "Devotion" is a 42-year-old woman's spiritual exploration of her relationship to God, religion and faith. Using an a la carte approach (including yoga, Buddhism, Judaism, kabbalah, ayurvedic philosophy, Thomas Merton and Virginia Woolf), Shapiro examines the rituals and mores of various belief systems as though she were pinching each with tweezers. She holds them up to her inquisitive eye."