It is hard to not be frustrated, anxious, angry or perhaps depressed at the state of the world. A world where injustice seems to be celebrated as bravery, hatred as manliness. At times like these, many, including myself, try to find individuals – both in the present and the past – who lived in similar times, or worse, and found meaning and purpose. But I know that true stories of kindness, decency and quest for a different world would not reach us if they were not told, or told well. I am in awe of those who choose to walk on a different path than what is the norm at the time, but I am also indebted to those who tell the stories of those travelers.

Tracy Kidder – an American non-fiction writer and narrative journalist, who focused on the lives of individuals making a change, in struggling schools, in TB wards of Haiti, and among the homeless in the streets of Boston – was one of these extraordinary........

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