A stranger asks you if you want a ride. What should you do? Learning to recognize dangerous situations with strangers can be confusing, but you can be prepared. The scenarios and tips in this book will help you make the right choices about strangers.
Anara Guard no longer uses Goodreads (although may return if and when greater oversight of review-bombers, fake profiles, and other falsehoods is provided). She grew up in Chicago where her first job was tending the corner newsstand for a penny a minute while Carl the Newspaper Man ate his lunch at Steinway's drug store. Her debut novel LIKE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN was published in March 2022. She studied writing at Urban Gateways Young Writers Workshop of Chicago with Kathleen Agena, Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts with Norman Corwin, St. Joseph's College with Stu Dybek, Bread Loaf Writers Conference with Robert Cohen and Alix Ohlin, and the Community of Writers. She graduated from Kenyon College and Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, "Remedies for Hunger" (2014) and "The Sound of One Body" (2010), as well as a poetry collection, "Hand on My Heart" (2019). In 2024, a second poetry collection will be published by The Poetry Box. She lives in northern California with her husband and yard dragon.