rmardel 's review for:

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

5.0

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The book is uneven, but surprisingly vulnerable and touchingly profound. I can see how it garners mixed reviews, but to me the profundity of this book is not so much the ideas, but the way Brooks has of processing his own grief, growth, and growing faith through the act of writing, and it is this very sense of the personal that moves this book beyond words to something profoundly human. I need to read it again, once I have achieved a little distance.