Living with strangers by Siri Hustveldt

Living with strangers Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist and essayist. Siri Hustvedt’s work often poses questions about the nature of identity, selfhood and perception. ‘Living with strangers’ is a litterary/personal essay on Hustveldt’s own experience of ‘The Big Apple’. She explains about the differences between the social code of conduct between the big cities and smaller places where she herself came from. Hustveldt begins her story by telling that she grew up in rural Minnesota and about how important it is there to greet everyone you meet on the road. She explains that it was rather a custom and