Letters of the Street

About the Book

Letters of the Street—a collection of “letters” written by a man who lives alone in an old apartment on the 14TH floor. The letters record time in the apartment and especially the man’s favorite pastime—leaning upon the wooden window with either a cigarette or a cup of coffee in his hand, drifting aimlessly into the view and into his own memories. The book deals with the man’s memories and his battle to escape the consequences of getting sucked into his past. Towards the end, the man realizes strength and newness through the same memories that used to eat him, and he sees his run-ins with life as blessings and his eventualities as arbitrary stumbling into grace.

About the Author

His is that rare voice that can subtly cause you to reach out to your own history, your past, and recreate those scenes over and over again through near-endless poignancy and charm—be it in the darkness of a struggle or in the innocence of just being alive at a moment in time.