How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Going back home with a

Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems

and gender

and joy when you are otherwise in pain

Two years after losing her husband

Fifty years after the riots

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Going back home with aWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly Possible How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He