The Body Is a Temporary Gathering Place

By Andrew Bertaina

Andrew Bertaina is going through a mid-life crisis: failed marriage, child-rearing, self-doubt, ennui, the works. Naturally, Bertaina does what any of us would do; he draws inspiration from the poster boy of mid-life crisis chroniclers, the 16th-century essayist Michele de Montaigne, channeling misgivings into meditations, lostness into longing. The essays in The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place deal with a variety of timeless and universal topics: e.g., how to woo a French woman on a train, male caregiving, how to cannibalize your spouse, and the riddle of time. The essays promise no answers. They do, however, strive to capture the beauty that lingers in a life passing all too quickly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957392304
• ISBN13: 9781957392301
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Autofocus Books
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"