The nine stories in You Are Not a Stranger Here are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England & Engl&. What unites them is the refined writing & a raw emotional power that carries the reader past the surface of the subject & into the core of the characters' lives. There is grief, passion, loneliness, humour & longing in these stories, but ultimately the book sets off the shock of recognition that takes readers past the clich-d language of human suffering & brings them to understand their own experience through the characters' lives.