Publisher's Synopsis
Title: A Letter to My Dead Friend from The Gambia: Memory, Mortality, and Meaning
Author: Lamin Ceesay
In this soul-searching narrative, A Letter to My Dead Friend from The Gambia explores the fragile threads that bind us across time, distance, and even death. Through intimate, poetic letters addressed to Yun-a Flemish man in his 70s whom the author met through Airbnb-the story captures a rare and unforgettable friendship that unfolded in The Gambia and Senegal.
Wandering between memories and mortality, Lamin reflects on their laughter, travels, unfinished conversations, and the lingering silence left behind. Each letter is a quiet rebellion against forgetting, an ode to the kind of bond born not from years but from authenticity.
With lyrical prose and meditative insight, this book is a love letter to the human experience-how strangers become soulmates, how memory keeps the dead alive, and how meaning is found in the most unexpected companionships.
It is a book for readers who cherish profound relationships, poetic writing, and stories that stir the soul.
