Quiet Undoings: Essays on religion, philosophy, death, and meaning

In this collection, Merlin writes with unsettling honesty about marriage and divorce, violence and safety, race and resentment, adoption and belonging, death and whatever may or may not come after. Some pages are tender, some are darkly funny, and some are sharp enough to cut. Together, they form the record of a man who refuses to lie to himself about what he sees—even when what he sees is his own fear, prejudice, curiosity, search and exhaustion.