If You Find This Letter, Hannah Brencher
If You Find This Letter, Hannah Brencher
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If You Find This Letter
My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

Author: Hannah Brencher

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/19/2015

Synopsis

Fresh out of college, Hannah Brencher moved to New York and found a city full of people who knew where they were going and what they were doing. Lonely and depressed, she noticed a woman who looked like she felt the same way on the subway. Hannah did something strange—she wrote the woman a letter.

When she realized that it made her feel better, she started writing and leaving love notes all over the city—in doctors' offices, in coat pockets, in library books, and in bathroom stalls. Feeling crushed within a culture that only felt like connecting on a screen, she poured her heart out to complete strangers. She found solace in the idea that her words might brighten someone's day.

Hannah's project took on a life of its own when she made an offer on her blog: She would handwrite a note and mail it to anyone who wanted one. Overnight, her inbox exploded with requests from people all over the world. Nearly 400 handwritten letters later, she started the website The World Needs More Love Letters, which quickly grew.

About Hannah Brencher

Hannah Brencher is a writer, a national speaker, and the founder of The World Needs More Love Letters. Named as one of the White House's Women Working to Do Good and a spokesperson for the United States Postal Service, Hannah has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine, Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other publications. Hannah graduated from Assumption College in 2010 with a double major in sociology and English, with a concentration in writing and mass communications.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah

A good book with a huge caveat: The marketing for If You Find This Letter is highly misleading. The book purports to be about the author's quest to find her purpose in life by writing love letters to strangers, but it's first and foremost a personal memoir about the author floundering in her faith a......more

Goodreads review by Dana

This book is just not for me. I'm sure the author is a nice girl, but the purple prose was just way too distracting for me. I felt like the book was way longer than it needed to be just because of the lengthy descriptions. Like many others, I expected this book to feature more of the letters that mad......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia (Bingeing On Books)

"My mother would say: be small or be beautiful. Beautiful is loud footsteps and knowing the weight of those footsteps." I first stumbled upon Hannah Brencher's website a few years ago. I thought it was a beautiful concept, the thought of writing love letters to strangers. I was so excited to be appro......more

Goodreads review by ashley

“Some people are dotted lines and other people are destinations. Some people get you somewhere and some people are just a place to be, all in themselves. But you cannot force those dotted lines into destinations.” This book. THIS. BOOK. Definitely my favorite book of this year, definitely one of my fa......more

Goodreads review by Katy

So, this is one I probably should have carefully read the blurb for. At the end of last year I was really on a woman's’ memoir kick - Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, etc. So when the publisher sent me this one to review, I was pretty excited to carry that ‘kick’ on in to 2015. But this book was......more

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