Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The Tarteragens is a memoir in 45 short chapters of autobiographical verse, tracing a life through childhood, family, friendship, love, estrangement, and fatherhood.With humor, candor, and an unsentimental eye, Ben Folk revisits the moments that shape a person: the peculiar logic of childhood, the desire to earn a parent’s pride, the cruelties we inflict without understanding them, and the discoveries that arrive decades after the events themselves. Ordinary memories-a family game show, a childhood injury, an arm-wrestling match, a disastrous music class-stand alongside experiences of illness, grief, intimacy, and loss.At the center of The Tarteragens are the people whose influence persists long after childhood ends. Across these intimate, sometimes uncomfortable recollections, Folk examines the distance between what we believed was happening and what we eventually come to understand.Moving between comedy and sorrow, the collection follows a son becoming a father and discovering how profoundly the beginning of another life can change his understanding of his own.
