Impermanence. Suffering. No-Self.
The Three Marks characterise all existence. Change, dissatisfaction and questions of identity lie at the core of this collection. Each story, born of an obsession with a moment, nudges us toward the liminal space where literature and spirituality converge. Passarelli's fiction engages with these themes, not to mire but to free us from suffering. Nothing is eternal, but the truths touched on in these pages will endure long beyond the reading of them.
"Like a lattice of jewels, each reflecting some quality of all the others, these twenty-eight stories are riveting, dream-like, at times hallucinatory; each an utterly distinct psychosphere, yet all held together by a luminous through-line, the Three Marks of Existence. Passarelli is a master painter of scenes." — Frank LaRue Owen (Inzan), author of The School of Soft-Attention and The Temple of Warm Harmony