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
FictionAuthor Lydia Davis Published by Canongate ISBN 9781805301899 EAN 9781805301899 Bic Code FYB Cover Hardback
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