Stairway to Paradise

Book excerpt: As the daughter of George and Ira Gershwin's sister, Frances, and Leopold Godowsky Jr., son of the well-known pianist, composer and teacher, Nadia Natali grew up in a privileged environment. Stairway to paradise is the memoir of her personal journey to find her own true purpose in life, leaving New York and traveling to a wild and wonderful piece of land in the coastal mountains of Southern California. Here she and her husband Enrico Natali, a Zen practitioner and photographer, raised a family and experienced unimaginable adventures, from the tragedy of losing their son to abundant and varying opportunities for personal growth, far away from the lifestyle in which she was raised.