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Life’s struggles, adversaries, and miseries offers material for a novel like this on time-beings. Well done! ByHenk-Jan van der Klison April 27, 2016 Format: Paperback In 2015 I reviewed I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust. Mathias B. Freese’s latest title, the memoir Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summers, discloses the memories since the author’s birth in 1940 up to 2015 with a focus on 2 life-changing summers in Woodstock. 1968 and 1969 were pivotal in entering adulthood. As retired psychotherapist Freese uses both a therapist, himself, his son and a wife as alternating protagonists in this novel. “What I…

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…