Profound perceptive and wryly observed Estates Large and Smallampamp160is the story of one mans reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldnampamp8217t do a pandemic finally did Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and listening to too much Grateful Dead he suspects that heampamp8217s overdue when it comes to understanding the bigger picture of who he is and what weampamp8217re all doing here. So heampamp8217s made another decision to teach himself 2500 years of Western philosophy.Thankfully he meets Caroline a fellow book lover who agrees to join him on his trek through the best of whatampamp8217s been thought and said.