currency book

At a small café where time seems to slow, sixteen-year-old Philomath meets weekly with his ninety-six-year-old great-grandfather, Cato—a man weathered by nearly a century of living, stripped of illusion, and burdened with a lucid view of the world’s impermanence. Their conversations drift between musings on illusion, truth, heartbreak, and meaning. As Philomath grapples with Cato’s piercing realism, he finds himself torn between despair and defiant hope.