What Life Owes to Death. When the Family Matriarch Takes Her Leave

“Like elephants, the human matriarch is the central pillar of the family,” writes Boucar, who lost his mother last year. “It is to rise from her passing that I wrote this modest book.”

A book as touching and instructive as it is tender. With his usual verve, his lucid humanism, and his innate sense of scientific popularization, Boucar reminds us of some essential truths of existence. Those that help us tame death but also to fully enjoy life since they “are the two sides of the same coin.”