“On Other People’s Mistakes” is a collection of stories about the most ordinary people living on the same stairwell landing as us, going to the same stores, watching the same TV shows, and loving the same performers. The authors are sure: such destinies are truly interesting. There’s nothing staged in them—they’re simple and, at the same time, complicated, just like all of our lives.
This is a book-illustration of how people build their own lives, make mistakes, and try again; they guess and lose. The stories are like a child’s construction set: where the next “brick” lies determines the result. The only difference is that in real life, those “bricks” probably can’t be rearranged. But that’s the charm. The experience you’ve lived through—along with failures and victories—makes each hero of these stories unique.