Lydia Davis delivers a collection of miniatures suffused with nuance and empathy. She detects the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pins them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overheard and misheard, a special delivery letter is mistaken for a rare white butterfly, toddlers learning to speak identify a ping-pong ball as an egg and mumbled remarks betray a marriage. In the glow of Davis's keen noticing, strangers can become like family and family like strangers. This is a signed hardback edition.