Sebastian Junger has made a career out of exploring questions he’ll never be able to fully answer: What happened to the crew of the Gloucester swordfishing boat Andrea Gail after it lost radio contact with the mainland? Who, exactly, killed Bessie Goldberg in Belmont in 1963?
Now, spurred by a near-death experience of his own, the journalist and author follows perhaps the most universally flummoxing line of inquiry of all: What happens when all this ends? And why is any of it even here in the first place?
“I seem to specialize in writing books about things that will never have a definitive, final answer,” Junger says. “This was
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