THE TOWER AND THE FACEA 62-year-old optimization addict has built an empire of credentials to avoid being seen. 250 books. Four master's degrees. 1,500 online courses. Zero human connections. When a six-foot Kenyan telecommunications engineer demands he stop treating her like a problem to solve, he chooses his tower-and spends the next six years painting her face 247 times, trying to understand what he destroyed. A confession in the tradition of Pavel Florensky: brutal, mathematical, and devastatingly honest about what happens when a man engineers himself out of the human race."Knausgård meets systems theory in this relentless autopsy of masculine emotional paralysis."