Our Strangers

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'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker

Lydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Davis's keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers.

Our Strangers is a fascinating collection that confirms the genius of a writer whose every attention is transformative.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781805301899
Published: October 2023

Number of pages: 368
Width: 144 mm
Height: 220 mm
Depth: 34 mm

Publisher: Canongate Books