By turns wistful, instructive, funny, and unabashedly candid…always revealing…GIGMENTIA is a call to understanding the creative life, and ought to serve as an inspiration to anyone seeking to live fully and mindfully.

I love this book! [GIGMENTIA] needs to be required reading for anyone who is willing to take on the life of a drummer.

GIGMENTIA is a heart-felt view of life from behind the drum kit and the writer’s desk, a winning story of art, music, and, especially, life.

This is a thoroughly original and deeply engaging exploration of the sometimes bizarre, often touching, but always fascinating public and private experience of working musicians — and a moving depiction of friendship, parenthood, biological and created families, and the losses and gains that constitute life lived intentionally and well.

Koep captivates with spellbinding, lyrical prose. GIGMENTIA is a moving exploration of artistic process, of friendship and family, of memory, of grief and loss―joyful, nuanced, and heartbreaking.

As an accomplished musician, poet, and novelist, Michael B. Koep is a modern-day renaissance man, whose writing echoes his musical vocation: he writes with lyrical intensity in the pulsing rhythm of a drumbeat. In his new memoir, GIGMENTIA, this literary gift flourishes. GIGMENTIA takes the reader on a riveting journey through band and musician life, fathering and marriage, caring for a mother who has acute dementia, and ultimately saying goodbye. I highly recommend this book.