Tiny Beautiful Things: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

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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 thefull and glorious gamut of life - but sometimes, a little advice is needed. For several years, thousands turned to Cheryl Strayed, a then-anonymous internet AgonyAunt. But unlike most Agony Aunts, this one's advice was spun from genuine compassion andinformed by a wealth of personal experience - experience that was sometimes tragic andsometimes tender, often hilarious and often heartbreaking. Having successfully battled her owndemons while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed sat down to answer the letters ofthe frightened, the anxious, the confused; and with each gem-like correspondence - of whichthe best are collected in this volume - she proved to be the perfect guide for those who had gota little lost in life. 'Strayed's worldview - her empathy, her nonjudgment, her belief in the fundamental logicof people's emotions and experiences despite occasional evidence to the contrary - beginsto seep into readers' consciousness in such a way that they can apply her generosity ofspirit to their own and, for a few hours at least, become better people... courageous andengaging stuff.' - New York Times

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Foundon the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than four million copies worldwide and wasmade into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Tiny Beautiful Things has been adaptedas a play and as a television series airing in 2023. Cheryl is also the author of Brave Enough,which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes, and the debut novelTorch. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. She lives in Portland,Oregon.

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 *