Entertaining strangers and riding motorcycles, fast boys and finding religion. These are just some of the graceful living topics shared by a vagabond aunt with a niece she fears she may never have a chance to influence except through a series of letters. Enclosed are those 12 sometimes darkly funny, always personal notes addressed to Emi, the author's newly born niece. In them, she outlines the trials she foresees her niece facing, and offers advice on how to make sense of the often patriarchal, always demanding societies in which they arise. Through the correspondence we also meet Emi's...