Tiny Beautiful Things
By Cheryl StrayedPublished: Vintage Books, 2012
Pages: 353
Genre: Self help
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Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across a bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the once-anonymous advice column Dear Sugar which was published online at the Rumpus. Tiny Beautiful Things is a collection of published and non-published letters and responses.
I enjoyed this novel. It's the second book I've read by Strayed: the first being Wild. She reminds me of a friend I had in school who was funny, vulgar, a blast to be around and very blunt; but she was blunt because she cared. Several of the pieces I connected with and will be applying to my own life. There's something about two complete strangers being painfully honest with one another that's quite a unique and beautiful circumstance. I'll definitely be checking out more of Strayed's novels.
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