I didn't know what to expect. I never really read the synopsis of this book, apart from the title. I knew the author even though I had never read anything by him.
I expected a book that would help me talk to strangers. However, what I got was a book to teach us that talking to strangers is much more complex than we think it might be. Not the talking itself, but the understanding others of it all.
He shows this with examples from Hitler, Montezuma, Sandra Bland & the tv series Friends to only name a few but a significant few. He also mentions the story of Amanda Knox. All these stories are famous, but he dives into the difficulty we have in understanding strangers.
I quite liked his conclusions and I walk away from this book realising to not always think that things are what they seem. I've learned something, and that's what I enjoy from informative books like these.
4 stars
Statistics:
Date read: February 8, 2020
Date published: September 10, 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Format: Audiobook
Pages: 388
Genre: Non Fiction
My Number of Books Read by this Author: 1
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