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    Reinhardt's Garden

    By Mark Haber

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    Mark Haber is well-known in the bookseller world as the operations manager at Brazos Bookstore. He's active on social media and is an unwavering advocate for literature and authors. Mark also already has a strong following as a tastemaker in bookselling, all of which will only help generate excitement for his work.

    Absurdist, intelligent, and self-aware, this book has all the trappings of a CHP classic and would fit perfectly on a bookshelf next to last year’s cult favorite Comemadre.

    Mark is a debut novelist. His first published work was short stories from Summerfolk Press, and we’re excited to see him go further with his first full-length debut.

    As the world becomes more fractured, philosophy is having a comeback, thanks to TV faves like The Good Place and podcasts like Philosophize This! Fast-paced yet digressive, zany but astute, Reinhardt’s Garden will appeal to fans of dark comedy, satire, and the hijinks of moral philosophers in an increasingly amoral world.

    Mark’s prose is both smart and accessible, and fans of revisionist history, translated literature, and the missteps of explorers alike will find a home in his work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoffee House Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9781566895705

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    • 2/5
      Looking for mentors is a reflex of young intellectuals, such as the narrator in this book. As a secretary of Yacov Reinhardt, the narrator presents in all seriousness and with nativity the life and philosophical work of his mentor. The stream of conscientiousness account focuses on creating the portrait of Iacov: he is presented as a genius, while we actually discover that he is a cocaine addict, an eccentric who hopes to become famous through his works exploring melancholy, a rich intellectual with many obsessions who embarks into a voyage in Uruguay to find his own mentor, who has retired into the jungle.
      The characters in this book are taking themselves too seriously; some have labeled this book as being one exploring absurdity, but I think it explores the relationship between the mentor and the protege, pinpointing how naive wannabes fall into the web of charismatic persons and, as our character, some do not fall out the web until the end.
      This book was really too experimental for my taste at this time and stage in my life. While reading it, I have felt like Iacov’s sterile ruminations pressured the reader to philosophize for the sake of doing it and I did not feel that any of the characters enriched me or made me want to “ stay” with them longer.