March 2024

"We're convinced we're steering our own lives, but honestly? We're just blind wanderers stumbling forward, constantly rediscovering how blind we actually are." The day her mother furiously hacks off her stunning red hair, Grace's life shifts into something darker. Lynch writes with this raw, visceral energy that doesn't let you look away.

"He wasn't hunting for perfection. He just wanted to express life itself. And life? That's imperfection." Born in 1910 in the small Chinese town of Putian, the carpenter's son arrives with one testicle. His birth coincides with tree planting season, which somehow feels prophetic in retrospect.

"The violence we inflict on ourselves to stay faithful to those we love—it's barely better than betrayal." March 11, 2001: the Taliban blow up the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan. That same day, 5000 km away, two men's lives intersect in ways they'll never fully understand.