The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening—A Poignant Journey Through Journalism, Global Connections, and Human Resilience in Today's World

by Ari Shapiro

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came. And he pushed, And they flew.

I am both “gay as in happy” and “queer as in fuck you.”

In this time of mutual mistrust and tribalism, we have few incentives to reach across divides. And then, we pick up a book and see the world through someone else’s eyes.

I don’t believe that suffering is inherently noble or that misery is a prerequisite for greatness.