MISSING PIECES: A Collection of Essays

by Christopher Kunz

Essays in Missing Pieces assemble a broad appreciation of the puzzle that is life, reflecting on childhood, relationships, and community in the Upper Midwest. Written over fifteen years, each essay is a glimpse into the collective spirit, a small piece of understanding. Fit together, the essays reveal a larger picture of a life well-lived.

Readers can tip this collection of insights onto any firm surface and sort through the pieces to discover stories of life, death, love, family, and more that speak to their own lives. Starting from the edge or the colorful inside pieces, readers will find a bit of themselves in both the words and the emotions between words, the gaps created by missing pieces.

157 pages, Paperback

Published April 24, 2020

Reviews

[Euen Kunz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This compilation of musings on life, death, and everything in-between makes you want to stop and pay attention to life before it is over. Take each essay like a prescription for what ails you - read one a day or one a week. Heart-warming, thought-provoking life lessons that are real and smack you in the forehead, wake you up, encourage you to appreciate what you have, laughing a little along the way. Kunz helps us to see the missing pieces of our lives and find a place for them in the grand picture of existence.

[Margaret Lorenz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is Tuffer's writing as I know and love it! Each essay is both personal and universal, his thinking so profound and yet so easy to assimilate. Not only has he stripped away the excesses in his own life, he's stripped away all unnecessary flourishes from his writing. His topics leave me aghast at what I've missed living in the same community, yet hopeful for how I might become more observant, more thoughtful, more centered on what's important. There should be more people in the world like Tuffer!