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Author:
Colleen Kinder, Leslie Jamison
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Date:
March 22, 2022
An anthology of short, intimate second-person essays by a diverse range of writers, each honoring a fleeting encounter with a stranger met while traveling that left a profound and lasting impact; with a foreword by bestselling author Leslie Jamison.
What The Reviewers Say
Sometimes it’s sweet, sometimes funny, sometimes just weird.
Writing groups looking for prompts to kick start their practice writings would be well advised to use the prompt Letter to a Stranger. This collection of writing demonstrates that through this process of short letters to passersby the writer thinks more deeply about his own life. In the process of reflecting on what a stranger meant to one, one reveals deep, perhaps hidden, truths about one’s own life.
Perhaps one of the best features of this book is how the reader may discover a letter that evokes one response today and a new, different response on another day, making this a collection that can be read more than once and feel new each time. Readers looking for quiet contemplation as well as conversation starters will find equal satisfaction in these pages..
Sweet but often poignant.
