Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Life is where you are.

It's a phrase that sort of sounds like ad copy for like a vacation resort getaway package deal,

but it comes up in this interview with Carlo Ova Knauskard. You probably know him from his

six-part autobiography series My Struggle, but he's got a new book of fiction now called The Morning Star.

And in it, he tangles like normal, boring, everyday stuff with these big ideas of death and God.

And he says that's the only way he knows how to get through it all.

How to deal with the big questions in life? How to deal with

why are we here? What's death? How did life come into being? You know, it's the only way to do it

is from where you are. Because, like he says, life is where you are. Here he is talking with NPR's

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In the Morning Star, Carl Ova Knessgard spins an ambitious tale that takes place over two days

in August. It's told through the eyes of several people, among them a professor, a priest,

a journalist, all struggling with the challenges that are life, love, mental health, addiction,

career failures, work-life balance, global warming. Then a new star appears in the sky and things get

strange. Crabbs fill the street far from the water, swarms of

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