A Memoir Series
Marco Cravero
The Architecture Trilogy
Three books about the structures we build to survive love, ambition, and the passage of time and what remains when they collapse.
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Three books about the structures we build to survive love, ambition, and the passage of time and what remains when they collapse.
Three memoirs. One architecture. Each book is a different structure the narrator built around love and an excavation of what it cost.
A man in his late thirties moves between Milan, London and a Greek island, accumulating relationships he cannot commit to and leaving before anything becomes real. Told in precise, accumulative prose, the book traces the narrator's discovery that avoidance is not absence it is its own elaborate structure, built over decades to keep love at a manageable distance.
The Architecture of Avoidance is a memoir about what happens when a man who is very good at his life asks whether he has actually been living it.
Set between present-day Tilos and the summer of 1994, the second book moves between the narrator doing maintenance work on the family house the walls his father built and memories of his father building it, running a bar on the island, being a man the narrator was too young to understand. A book about inheritance: what we receive, what we refuse, and what we pass on without knowing.
The Geometry of Wanting asks what it means to want things in love, in ambition, in fatherhood and whether wanting and having are ever the same shape.
The final book completes the architecture: after a life of leaving relationships, cities, careers the narrator asks what it would mean to stay. Written from the vantage point of the rebuild, it is a book about commitment as a practice, about the decision to be present, and about what it costs to stop running when running is what you are good at.
The structures men build to keep intimacy at a safe distance and what it costs them.
25 years in the City. What the rat race gives you and what it quietly takes.
Two sons watching. What we teach without meaning to. What we inherit without choosing.
The Italian Alps. Tilos. NY, London, Milan. What home means when you've lived in five cities.
A man who did everything expected and arrived at the question of what it was for.
Starting over at 46. Building something real. Figuring out who you are without the title.
Book One The Architecture of Avoidance is complete and available for submission. A full manuscript, synopsis and author note are available on request.
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