When was the last time you sat down to really craft a letter? In most letter-writing settings today professional content supplants inspiration and strict format substitutes for style. Genuine expression has lost its way. But in Dear Exile, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery reintroduce us to the magic and freedom a letter can bring. In a collection of post-college correspondence, we have the opportunity to contrast Liftin's urban digerati lifestyle as a single web professional to Montgomery's global idealism as a Peace Corps schoolteacher with her husband in Kenya. Painted with elegant and clever language, they reveal their anxiety, humor, and confusion with the kind of open honesty that only letters, more so even than face to face conversation, can express.