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April 17, 2016 Reviewed by Molly Martin Tesserae A Memoir of Two Summers by Mathias B Freese Wheatmark Paperback: 236 pages, February 15, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-1627873536   By definition a tesserae is a small block or piece of glass, pebbles, tile, bone, or other materials employed in the creation of a mosaic. Using this definition; the title of this book, Tesserae, indicates to the reader that a mosaic of vibrant narrative pieces will be conveyed to generate an interesting, perhaps uplifting, array.  I found myself becoming drawn into the work through a shared sense of nostalgia.  Freese carries the reader along from…

GENERAL QUESTIONS: Please tell us about yourself. Retired English teacher and analytic psychotherapist, I have been a writer for almost 50 years. I am self-taught, with the deficits of any autodidact. I resist being shown how to write. I prefer to reinvent the wheel – in that is a learning by itself. Suffering has taught me a great deal. Writing simply reveals that anguish. The purpose of all my written works has been to educate myself about who I am and for that no teacher can work with me except to hand me a copy of Strunk and White’s, The…

  Readers familiar with the works of Matthew Freese will expect the best and will not be disappointed by his new book, “Tesserae”, a memoir in which he reveals much of his early life and his struggles with the demons of his past that shaped him into the man he has become: educator, psychotherapist and author. Although the story focuses on two summers in the late 1960s, it is told in context of his childhood and events in his later life, even up to the present time. This is a raw, often heart wrenching, insight into the life of a young…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Mathias B. Freese 1786 Tanner Circle Henderson, NV 89012 Cell 702 715 0683 702 685 2446 www.mathiasbfreese.com mthsfreese@hotmail.com Publisher’s link: http://www.wheatmark.com/catalog/entry/Tesserae-Summers-Mathias-B-Freese TESSERAE: A MEMOIR OF TWO SUMMERS The quiescence found in Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summers has a staying effect upon the mind; this memoir lingers in the reader’s memory for some time.  – Steven Berndt, Professor of American Literature, College of Southern Nevada  In 1941 Citizen Kane premiered and the author was one year old. The snowglobe Rosebud weaves in and out of his memoir, cinema’s consummate symbol of attachment and separation, the classic…