Human Connections in 'This Brilliant Darkness'
"This Brilliant Darkness is a book born of insomnia. It's a collection
of snapshots and written profiles by author Jeff Sharlet that take us
deep into other people's lives. And by doing that, Sharlet says, he's
really trying to tell us his own story. "I originally sort of thought of
it as a memoir through other people's lives. It's bookended by two
heart attacks, my father's, and then two years later, my own," he says.
"I'm a journalist, and my life was sort of falling apart and the only
way I knew how to put it together was through stories. So it's a
collection of the strangers whose stories I shared, they shared with me
in those years between those heart attacks, and attempting to find a
narrative together."" NPR shares more.
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