Letter to a stranger : essays to the ones who haunt us / edited by Colleen Kinder ; foreword by Leslie Jamison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kinder, Colleen, editor.

Jamison, Leslie, 1983- writer of foreword.

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

Memory.

Self-actualization (Psychology).

journeys.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xix, 308 pages : map ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SYMMETRY

To the Traveling Magician, Granada, Nicaragua / Leslie Jamison

To the Woman Who Found Me Crying Outside the Senate, Washington, DC / Rachel Swearingen

To the Father Paused Under the Tree, Grand Canyon, Arizona / Anjali Sachdeva

To My Lost Trishaw Driver, Mandalay, Myanmar / Pico Iyer

To the Child on the Plane, The Cascades, Oregon / Lia Purpura

To My Arctic Vardoger, Pyramiden, Norway / Alexander Lumans

To the Girl in the Tattoo Parlor, Dallas, Texas / Michelle Tea

To the Face in the Subway Glass, Berlin, Germany / Annie Schweikert

MYSTERY

To the Loner at High Altitude, Tres Cruces, Peru / Elizabeth Kolbert

To the First Responder After the Storm, New Orleans, Louisiana / David Parker Jr

To the Boy Who Climbed onto My Hammock, Mazunte, Mexico / Emily Matchar

To the Man I Believe Was Good, Palermo, Italy / Lauren Groff

To the Man Who Saw Cobras Dance, Auroville, India / Meera Subramanian

To the Woman Who Wanted to Go Shoe Shopping, Xi'an, China / Vanessa Hua

To the Chatty Man Who Pierced the Quiet, Canaan, New Hampshire / Peter Orner

To the Boo Radley of My Childhood, Sydney, Australia / Madelaine Lucas

To the Grandfather I Hardly Knew, Sicily, Italy / Peter Turchi

To My Grandmother, c/o the Mush Hole, Tsi Kanatdhere / Amber Meadow Adams

CHEMISTRY

To the Girl at the Riverbend, Baker River, New Hampshire / Howard Axelrod

To the Stranger in My Family, Bethesda, Maryland / Kiki Petrosino

To the Man Who Spoke with His Hands, South China Sea / Ting Reinhardt

To the Taxi Driver Who Looped Back to Get Me, Paris, France / Irina Reyn

To the Woman Whose Shoulder I Slept On, New York City to Boston / Naomi Gordon-Loebl

To the Source Who Kept Changing Costume, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia / Keija Parssinen

To the Father of the Baby with the Brain Freeze, Tucson, Arizona / Margo Steines

To the Inescapable Teacher, Parakou, Benin / Erica Cavanagh

To the Gambler I Met in Jury Duty, Chinatown, New York City / Jenessa Abrams

To the Stranger from the Silver Hour, Rocamadour, France / Colleen Kinder

GRATITUDE

To the Pharmacist on Futong West Street, Beijing, China / Monet Patrice Thomas

To the Woman Who Spared Me an Orange, Oaxaca, Mexico / Sarah Menkedick

To the Driver I Followed, Interstate 40, North Carolina / Matthew Olynann

To the Man Who Sold Me Shoddy Film, Harar, Ethiopia / Meron Hadero

To Sandals Man, An airport terminal, Central China / Craig Mod

To the Driver Who Was Not Godfrey, Kampala, Uganda / Raksha Vasudevan

To the Waiter Who Left Me a Tip, Beyoglu District, Istanbul, Turkey / Michael Agresta

To the Doctor I Never Thanked, Tarrytown, New York / Aria Beth Sloss

To the Woman Who Walked Beside Me, Yonkers, New York / Sarah Perry

To the Drunk Mr. Flunchy, Avignon, France / Gregory Pardlo

WONDER

To the Seller of Breadcrumbs, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Cutter Wood

To the Woman on the Park Bench, Central Park, New York City / Aviya KusUer

To My Steadfast Danish Soldier, Copenhagen, Denmark / Julie Lunde

To the Young German Horsewoman, Chosen to Help with Rettir, Obyggdasetur Islands, Iceland / Pam Houston

To the Lady of the Platform, New York, New York / Jacquelyn Mitchard

To the Italian Whose Name I Lost, Florence, Italy / Julia Glass

To the Traveler Who Hid Cash in Her Underwear, Rwanda

Tanzania border / Ted Conover

To the Lady of the Blackberries, Happy Camp, California / Kelly Ramsey

REMORSE

To the Logari Who Asked About the Sun, Logar Province, Afghanistan / Jamil Jan Kochai

To the Roomful of Travelers Watching Reality TV, La Paz, Bolivia / Anna Vodicka

To Mario, 26-Year-Old Bestie to My 78-Year-Old Mom, Sunnyside, Washington / Faith Adiele

To the Son of the Victim, Santa Rosa, California / Sophie Haigney

To the Woman with the Restraining Order, Hoodsport, Washington / Meg Charlton

To the Woman We Met Before the Flood, Pai, Thailand / Maggie Shipstead

To the Servant Girl Who Shared My Toys, Karachi, Pakistan / Sheba Karim

To the Keeper of the Fawn, Chisago City, Minnesota / Sally Franson

To the Woman Harboring a Gringo, San Isidro del General, Costa Rica / Jesse Donaldson

FAREWELL

To the Poet Who Disappeared, Okinawa, Japan / Akemi Jo Uson

To the Woman in the Earrings, Provincetown, Massachusetts / T. Kira Madden

To the Protagonist of a Too-Short Story, US Route 17, New York / Carlynn Houghton

To the Follower of Cheikh Bamba, Dakar, Senegal / Emmanuel Iduma

To the Father of the Lost Chilean Son, Chilean base, Antarctica / Carin Clevidence

To the Man Who Had a Wife, Coshocton, Ohio / Rachel Yoder

To the One Who Was Supposed to Get Away, Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand / Lavinia Spalding

To the Stranger My Doctor Heard All About, Portland, Oregon / Robin Romm

To the Deliveryman Who Gave Me a Lift, Caracas, Venezuela / Lucas Mann

To the Girl I Didn't Love on the Last Bus Home, Guanacaste, Costa Rica / Jeremy B. Jones.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781643751245

1643751247

OCLC:

1227271144

Publisher Number:

99989314817