Description:Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T. Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, and Peter Orner are among the numerous writers who grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter leave an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to “write a letter to a stranger who haunts you,” she opened the floodgates. The responses - intimate and addictive, all in the form of letters, all written in the second person - began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by today’s best literary minds are organized around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, and Farewell, and guide us both across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection.Best-selling author Leslie Jamison, who provides the foreword, reveals she has been haunted for years by a traveling magician she met in Nicaragua. Journalist Ted Conover writes his missive to a stranger he met on a New Yorker assignment in Rwanda. From the story of Vanessa Hua’s shoe shopper in China to the tale of Michelle Tea’s encounter in a Texas tattoo parlor, these pieces are replete with observations about how to live and what to seek, and how a stranger’s loaded glance, shared smile, or question posed can alter the course of our lives. Moving and unforgettable,
'LETTER TO A STRANGER'
is an irresistible read for any literary traveler and the perfect gift for anyone who is haunted by a person they met once but will remember forever.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. To get started finding Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Release
2021
ISBN
1665111135
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
Description: Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T. Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, and Peter Orner are among the numerous writers who grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter leave an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to “write a letter to a stranger who haunts you,” she opened the floodgates. The responses - intimate and addictive, all in the form of letters, all written in the second person - began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by today’s best literary minds are organized around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, and Farewell, and guide us both across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection.Best-selling author Leslie Jamison, who provides the foreword, reveals she has been haunted for years by a traveling magician she met in Nicaragua. Journalist Ted Conover writes his missive to a stranger he met on a New Yorker assignment in Rwanda. From the story of Vanessa Hua’s shoe shopper in China to the tale of Michelle Tea’s encounter in a Texas tattoo parlor, these pieces are replete with observations about how to live and what to seek, and how a stranger’s loaded glance, shared smile, or question posed can alter the course of our lives. Moving and unforgettable,
'LETTER TO A STRANGER'
is an irresistible read for any literary traveler and the perfect gift for anyone who is haunted by a person they met once but will remember forever.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us. To get started finding Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.