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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by Jeff Sharlet National Jewish Book Award Winner and desserts that introduced vegetablesA visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his own. In the grip of writerly self doubt, Jeff turned to images, taking