This book is written by an award-winning Turkish journalist, novelist and political thinker. She is known globally for her critical writings on authoritarianism.

It is described as being 'for anyone who feels alienated by an ever-more monstrous world, and a roadmap for an uncertain future'. It is written as a series of letters from 'one stranger to another'. And it is very readable, while being both challenging and moving. 

The author talks of having to leave one country for another and her experiences each time - the reception she's had, the people she's met, the emotions she's felt. And it encourages the reader to consider these things for ourselves - how might I respond to someone in her situation, how might I feel if I was in that position myself, what would I hope for in the people I met?

She seeks, she says, to explain to western countries that the far right is 'a malaise growing in the fabric of everyday life'. And 'when things really go south in your country, take care of each other. You'll have nothing but each other in the end. Don't fall into the trap of proving that you've done enough only by demonstrating that the others did less. When you all become strangers in your own land, don't be strangers to each other.'

But she also highlights how people who are displaced need to find their own role, their own purpose, their own place of safety. She says: 'self is broken when one lives on other people's kindness'. And she meets a young Syrian woman who told her 'I'm tired of being strong. I just want to say I am weak.'

It's a powerful, compelling and affecting book which is brilliantly written in providing a difficult and complex message in an accessible way.