Description
Grieving the loss of his wife, a retired professor throws himself into his life’s work—a monumental book that reinterprets Michel de Montaigne, the father of the essay, for the modern world. But as he struggles to complete this grand project, he is constantly interrupted—by the ghosts of his past, the distractions of modern life, and his son’s relentless push to make an electronic dance album.
As the professor sifts through the clutter of his desk, his thoughts are a haze of caffeine-fueled contemplation. Memories of his time at a community college, an artists’ colony in the Berkshires, and his passions for coffee and Holocaust art spill onto the page. Among his musings, he recalls sculptors, poets, painters, and inventors—each seeking to escape mediocrity and their own demons.
Darkly humorous and absurd, Lesser Ruins is a poignant, spiraling meditation on ambition, grief, and the human quest for meaning through art.
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