A man meets a boy online. They travel and dine. They get to know each other in times of mayhem. Romance deepens. Ardor intensifies. The Love of a Certain Age records the sparkling energy of this unexpected encounter. In lyric microfictions, the man narrates his days in the boy’s company, speaking from a place of abiding affection. He ponders love’s philosophical foundations, longs in cities and villages, recalls his past, and conceives a future in mesmerizing histories of the present. With restlessness that strikes at taboos and ennobles the spirit, the book reclaims the chance of salvation in a world far from Eden.