In Guidebook to Relative Strangers, Dungy offers a wealth of essays about how her Blackness, her illness, and her motherhood has impacted how she navigates the world from Maine to Ghana to Denver. There are beautiful essays about how her daughter’s voluminous hair draws unnecessary attention, about losing her childhood home to developers, and about visiting slave-holding jails in Ghana. What resonates most within these essays is Dungy’s self-awareness: She knows who she is and how her identities impact how she’s perceived.