Tiny Beautiful Things

By Cheryl Strayed,

Book cover of Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

Book description

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES •NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.

For more than a decade, thousands of people…

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2 authors picked Tiny Beautiful Things as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this book because Cheryl Strayed loved and was loved by her mother in exactly the same way that I loved and was loved by my mother. Although Cheryl was in her twenties when her mother died, and I was in my forties, I relate to her experience of grief and the endless longing of missing on a visceral level.

Strayed understands emotional pain and is able to relate to it in a way that brought tears to my eyes. I regularly wept while reading this book, yet she made me feel less alone. I love this book because…

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Reading this book of advice columns felt like therapy. It validates difficult feelings, such as the decision to end a long-term relationship, and offers sharp yet compassionate takes on the many challenges people face in life. I laughed and cried.

The stories stayed with me long after I finished, and I still seek out certain essays or refer them to loved ones going through a hard time. 

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