02282cam a2200313 i 4500 512859371 TxAuBib 20211115120000.0 210518s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021019229 9781643751245 PAP 19.95 1643751247 PAP 19.95 TxAuBib rda Letter to a stranger [BOOK] : essays to the ones who haunt us / edited by Colleen Kinder ; foreword by Leslie Jamison. First Edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. xix, 308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Foreword / by Leslie Jamison -- Introduction / by Colleen Kinder -- SYMMETRY -- MYSTERY -- CHEMISTRY -- GRATITUDE -- WONDER -- REMORSE -- FAREWELL. 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. Bestselling 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. Provided by publisher. 20211115. Voyages and travels. Memory. Self-actualization (Psychology.) Jamison, Leslie, 1983-, author of foreword. Kinder, Colleen, editor.