A collection of the year&;s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name. &;An essay is the child of uncertainty,&; André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. &;The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace.&; The  essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. From a Black father&;s confrontation of his son&;s illness, to a divorcée&;s transcendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuing moments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace.  The Best American 2020 Essays includes  RABIH ALAMEDDINE &; BARBARA EHRENREICH &; LESLIE JAMISON JAMAICA KINCAID &; ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH &; A. O. SCOTT &; JERALD WALKER &; STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS and others