In his long job, eminent psychotherapist andauthor Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life’stwo greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each folks isresponsible for leading a life worth living. In Animals of a Time, he and his individuals confront the issue ofthese challenges. Although these folks have come to Yalom looking for relief,reputation, or signifying, they find that might be found are rarely found in theplaces where we want to look.

Want Love’sExecutioner and Yalom’s other writings, Creaturesof each day lays bare the required job we each face every day: to make ourown lives meaningful.