Review by celiarl - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

4.5

Loved my experience with this audiobook.

Creative production that included a theme song by Janelle Monáe, real snippets of interviews/memoirs, and acting out of interrogations.
Highlighted our main flaws while talking to strangers, including our default to truth (believing the other person is telling the truth), coupling (believing a person and a context always go together), and confusion with “mismatching” (persons actions and perceived characteristics do not match).
Well thought out, and offered a great vouch for grace towards others as we are all doing our best (specifically with the Sandra Bland case— “who was the officer’s boss who thought using a “haystack search” method was right in a low-crime area?”)
Intrigued by the focus on current event stories— Sandra Bland, Chanel Miller/Brock Turner, Al Qaeda, Cuban spies, etc.