What's Your Story?: True Experiences from Complete Strangers
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Everyone has a story to share. What's yours?
In 2009, Brandon Doman, who has always been curious about the people with whom we share our world, sat at a local coffeehouse and decided to ask passersby a simple question: "What's your story?"
Providing only paper and pens, Doman created an exploratory space that instantly intrigued people to share their stories anonymously. Now, more than 10,000 stories later, the Strangers Project has become a momentous movement, engaging strangers of all ages and backgrounds to reflect, rejoice, heal, and connect through words.
Published here for the first time, What's Your Story? showcases a selection of two hundred stories from the Strangers Project. Equal parts heartbreaking and humorous, this moving compendium lays bare our universal truths, desires, and sufferings, and illustrates the emotional power of storytelling and our shared humanity. To complete this beautiful collage of stories, a blank page is included at the end for readers to add their own personal story.
With more than fifty color photographs and illustrations
Brandon Doman
In addition to collecting stories from strangers, author Brandon Doman has traveled the country helping raise awareness about mental health and suicide prevention through the nonprofit organization Active Minds (activeminds.org). He currently shares stories online and in exhibits, and continues to talk to strangers. He lives in Brooklyn.
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What's Your Story? - Brandon Doman
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
What’s Your Story?
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
Foreword
As I write this foreword, I’m sitting next to a stranger on a cross-country flight. My seatmate and I have exchanged a few formalities but nothing more. In our continuing silence, I reread more of the extraordinary stories Brandon has been able to capture and curate in this book.
The more I read, the more I want to take action, like Brandon, and invite this woman next to me—whom I will likely never see again—to share her story with me. I want to ignore what my mother told me many times growing up, to never talk to strangers,
and learn more about who she is.
When I was a little girl I remember sitting in the backseat of my mothers car staring out into the LA traffic looking into the cars of the people passing by and wondering what their stories were, who were these strangers?
Years ago, I started my own unlikely art project, inviting strangers to