Narrated by a man on vacation in a remote fishing village of Costa Rica, Fred Waitzkin’s Strange Love is a novel in which an American tourist finds himself obsessed with a Costa Rican woman. As Rachel shares her story with the man, he is quickly mesmerised by her beauty and the details of her past. Soon, he begins to allude to the fact that he is the famous author, that he always dreamed he could be, and that he has the power to change Rachel’s life.