
Tiny Beautiful Things
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Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you, you lose a family member, you can't pay the bills. But it can be pretty great, too: you've had the hottest sex of your life, you get that plum job, you muster the courage to write your novel. Everyday across the world, people go through the full and glorious gamut of life - but sometimes, a little advice is needed.
For several years, thousands turned to Cheryl Strayed, a then-anonymous internet Agony Aunt. But unlike most Agony Aunts, this one's advice was spun from genuine compassion and informed by a wealth of personal experience - experience that was sometimes tragic and sometimes tender, often hilarious and often heartbreaking. Having successfully battled her own demons while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed sat down to answer the letters of the frightened, the anxious, the confused; and with each gem-like correspondence - of which the best are collected in this volume - she proved to be the perfect guide for those who had got a little lost in life.
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Strayed's worldview - her empathy, her nonjudgment, her belief in the fundamental logic of people's emotions and experiences despite occasional evidence to the contrary - begins to seep into readers' consciousness in such a way that they can apply her generosity of spirit to their own and, for a few hours at least, become better people... courageous and engaging stuff. * New York Times * I couldn't bring myself to stop reading... It made me laugh out loud and it made me gasp with disbelief... The writing is addictively, breathtakingly great -- Viv Groskop * Observer * Charming, idiosyncratic, luminous, profane... Sugar is the ultimate advice columnist for the internet age... She shines out amid the sea of fakeness * New Republic * These pieces are nothing short of dynamite... Here at Salon we're reading the columns with boxes of tissue and raised fists of solidarity, shaking our heads with awe and amusement * Salon * Might be one of the most profound yet enjoyable books you will read this summer... Profane, funny and incredibly moving * Irish Times *More details
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- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition (2022)
- Introduction by Steve Almond
- Part I IT WAS ALWAYS ONLY US
- Like an Iron Bell
- How You Get Unstuck
- That Ecstatic Parade
- A Motorcycle with No One on It
- The Reckoning
- There's a Bundle on Your Head
- Write Like a Motherfucker
- A New, More Fractured Light
- Dudes in the Woods
- Icky Thoughts Turn Me On
- Reach
- Part II WHATEVER MYSTERIOUS STARLIGHT THAT GUIDED YOU THIS FAR
- The Baby Bird
- Go! Go! Go!
- The Black Arc of It
- Hell Is Other People's Boyfriends
- Thwack, Thwack, Thwack
- The Woman Hanging on the End of the Line
- No Mystery About Sperm
- The Mad Sex Confessor
- The Future Has an Ancient Heart
- Faux Friendship Footsie
- The Human Scale
- Part III CARRY THE WATER YOURSELF
- Beauty and the Beast
- I Chose van Gogh
- The Other Side of the Pool
- The Truth That Lives There
- Too Much Paint
- Tiny Revolutions
- Not Enough
- No Is Golden
- Romantic Love Is Not a Competitive Sport
- A Big Life
- The Known Unknowns
- On Your Island
- Part IV YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE BROKEN FOR ME
- The Magic of Wanting to Be
- A Glorious Something Else
- A Tunnel That Wakes You
- How the Real Work Is Done
- The Ghost Ship That Didn't Carry Us
- Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone
- Waiting by the Phone
- We Are All Savages Inside
- The Lusty Broad
- The Bad Things You Did
- Bend
- The Obliterated Place
- Part V PUT IT IN A BOX AND WAIT
- A Bit of Sully in Your Sweet
- We Are Here to Build the House
- The Empty Bowl
- Transcend
- A Shimmering Slice of Your Mysterious Destiny
- The Ordinary Miraculous
- We Call This a Clusterfuck
- Are You My Mother?
- Ten Angry Boys
- Tiny Beautiful Things
- Part VI WE ARE THE SOLID
- Vespers
- Trust Yourself Wildly
- We Are the Solid
- Heartbreak Hellspace
- The Truest Story Is Always the Widest One
- Good Medicine
- Acknowledgments
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