In his long career, eminent psychotherapist andauthor Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life’stwo greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us isresponsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients confront the difficulty ofthese challenges. Although these people have come to Yalom seeking relief,recognition, or meaning, they discover that such things are rarely found in theplaces where we think to look.

Like Love’sExecutioner and Yalom’s other writings, Creaturesof a Day lays bare the necessary task we each face every day: to make ourown lives meaningful.