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At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency - 52 hertz - never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind.

The award-winning actress presents her literary debut. An unconventional memoir in letters, Dear Mr. You chronicles Parker's life through correspondence with men from her past and imagined future and reveals the complexity and power found in relationships both loving and fraught. In conversation with Leslie Jamison ( The Empathy Exams).

Leslie Jamison erkundet die Tiefe von Verlangen, Intimität und Obsession und testet dabei auch die Grenzen ihrer eigenen Offenheit und ihres Mitgefühls für andere aus. Wie kann man empathisch über menschliche Erfahrung schreiben, ohne die kritische Distanz zu verlieren? Wie das Beteiligtsein verarbeiten, ohne der Selbstbezogenheit zu erliegen?