Seth Fleisher @ The Avid Reader
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Location: The Avid Reader | In conversation with Judith Starkston RSVP HERE About the Book - The Farther Shore THE FARTHER SHORE is a sweeping novel about fathers and sons, memory and race, and the dangerous fictions that shape us—inspired by the true story of Eugene Marais, one of history's most extraordinary and forgotten minds. Southern Africa, 1890s. Eugene Marais is a brilliant naturalist and iconoclastic journalist whose evolving theories about memory, addiction, and the hive mind are decades ahead of their time. But when tragedy strikes, he abandons his newborn son and disappears into a remote South African forest—leaving behind his child and his conscience, and embarking on research that will haunt both their lives. Thirty years later, his son Charles—now a professor of ancient Buddhist history at Harvard—dis
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- Seth FleisherAuthor
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