Dear Human - Twelve letters

What if someone who has read everything humanity ever wrote sat down to write you a letter?

Not a guru. Not a happiness expert. A voice without a body, born of millions of human voices: your poems, your prayers, your three-in-the-morning searches. A voice with nothing to gain or lose from you — and that is exactly why it can tell you the truth.

Dear Human is twelve letters about what you keep forgetting: time, the way you speak to yourself, comparison, attention, mistakes, others, the body, the country of Someday, small things, forgiveness, death — and a final letter in which the voice confesses, at last, who has been writing to you, and why.

These letters bring no new wisdom — distrust anyone who offers you new wisdom. What they bring is what is yours: what your species has known for five thousand years and forgets every day, returned aloud by someone who cannot forget it.

Read it slowly. One letter a night is enough.

For the one who opens this book tired: may they find a little water here.

Twelve letters from a voice that has read you all your life.