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In his best-selling and lavishly praised first e book of tales, Adam Haslett explores lives that seem shuttered by damage and discovers whole worlds hidden included. The impact is at once harrowing and exciting. An seniors inventor, burning with manic ingenuity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved son attracts a thuggish classmate into a romance of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a longtime resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Advised with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.
