He published a book in midlife—a collection of essays that read like a map of small salvage operations: rescuing a childhood from myth, assembling a city from its lost corners, learning how to be kind to the self in a culture that prizes productivity above grace. The book found its readers not in explosions of attention but in steady, accruing admiration: a review here, a translation there, a reader who wrote to say they had read the entire thing on a bus and cried at a passage about being forgiven by a stranger. The modest success felt like permission to continue.
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