Apparently we’ve been judging people all wrong. Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking To Strangers (2019) somehow manages to interconnect interrogating terrorists, Jerry Sandusky, Sandra Bland, Brock Turner and Amanda Knox into one big you can’t judge a book by its cover! Lots of hot takes that are sometimes a little too spicy. Also lots of good lessons here, like how reading body language is ineffective or torture tactics/stress can lead to memory loss. Sorry, water boarding!
Quick read, good conversation fodder. Stay for the new perspective, and somehow try to get past the fact that racism was often just relegated to the footnotes… :/