Masha Hamilton’s fifth novel, THE ENGAGEMENT OF STRANGERS, in which a phone call to a wife reporting that her husband has been kidnapped in Afghanistan, sets in motion a swirl of events here and abroad, placing her at odds with her stepdaughter, sending her into the streets of her Brooklyn neighborhood, where she connects to a wider world of survivors, which ultimately transforms her as she becomes able to set aside an old grief and rebuild her ability to find hope to Fred Ramey at Unbridled Books by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
