This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

This Brilliant Darkness is a visionary work of radical empathy that delves into the darkness around us and awaiting us.

Through immersion journalism and documentary-style storytelling, Jeff Sharlet takes readers on a journey through the lives of strangers he meets on the road, including those working night shifts, experiencing homophobia in Putin's Russia, and accompanying a lonely woman on shopping trips.

The book is defined by insomnia, late-night driving, and the companionship of other darkness-dwellers, and it erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask how people live with suffering.

With haunting photos and expressive prose, This Brilliant Darkness is a luminous, moving, and visual record of fleeting moments of connection that will leave readers changed.