Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

Description: When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to "write a letter to a stranger who haunts you," she opened the floodgates. These short, insightful essays by some of 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.

Brief description:

Ramón de Ocampo, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, was a cowinner in 2018 of the Audie Award for Best Multi-Voiced Performance. A graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, he has been seen on television, film, and stages all over the world, including recurring roles on such television shows as The West Wing, 12 Monkeys, Sons of Anarchy, and Medium. He is the winner of a prestigious Obie Award for his stage work.

Review Quotes: Letter to a Stranger is nothing less than a celebration of the adventure that is other people.
--Ariel Levy, author of The Rules Do Not Apply

The symphony of voices in Letter to a Stranger is at times rousing and exhilarating, at other times piercing and plaintive. The human condition is on full display, here in these fleeting glimpses of our essential connectedness. This beautiful book is a perfect one for our times. It reminds us that we are witnesses to one another's joys and heartaches, even if we never exchange a word.
--Dani Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance

By turns, moving, hilarious, and scary, this collection of taut fiery essays is a sprint around the world--all keyhole portraits of unexpected brushes with that one character who flares with meaning.
--Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs