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The Weight of Presence
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ISBN13: 9798995339908
Publisher: Imprint
Published: Mar 13 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint
Published: Mar 13 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Weight of Presence
Frédéric Martin was born a bastard, his birth certificate stamped non reconnu, his father's name absent. What followed was decades of crossing: borders, languages, institutions, the boundaries between survival and self-destruction. Linear lives move from wound to recovery, from broken to whole. This one refused that arrangement.
Frédéric Martin was born a bastard, his birth certificate stamped non reconnu, his father's name absent. What followed was decades of crossing: borders, languages, institutions, the boundaries between survival and self-destruction. Linear lives move from wound to recovery, from broken to whole. This one refused that arrangement.
The Weight of Presence traces one man's passage through post-industrial France, the bohemian nights of Monterrey, the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, and the high desert of New Mexico and Nevada. Each landscape a mirror, each departure a reckoning. Along the way, Martin encounters a series of unlikely teachers: a priest who stages a benevolent ambush, a dying coal miner in an ICU, an elder who presses his palm to the earth and says: your addiction and your healing are the same circle.
This is the book's central claim, and it is not metaphor. Drawing on Indigenous teachings, the philosophy of Sartre and Levinas, the magic realism of GarcÃa Márquez, and twenty years working alongside people the world has rendered invisible, Martin argues that fractured lives, held whole in their highs and lows, become the most precise instruments for accompanying others through similar terrain.
Presence is not a gift. It is a discipline. And wounds, if you learn to hold them, become a map, a compass.
This is the book's central claim, and it is not metaphor. Drawing on Indigenous teachings, the philosophy of Sartre and Levinas, the magic realism of GarcÃa Márquez, and twenty years working alongside people the world has rendered invisible, Martin argues that fractured lives, held whole in their highs and lows, become the most precise instruments for accompanying others through similar terrain.
Presence is not a gift. It is a discipline. And wounds, if you learn to hold them, become a map, a compass.
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