Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.
Tiny Beautiful Things brings the best of Dear Sugar in one place and includes never-before-published columns and a new introduction by Steve Almond. Rich with humor, insight, compassion—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.
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On Valentine’s Day 2012, novelist (Torch) and memoirist (Wild) Cheryl Strayed announced that she also had a secret identity: She was the popular advice columnist masquerading as Sugar on Rumpus (therumpus.net). For the past two years, Sugar’s wise, humane responses to reader’s problems had been attracting a faithful readership. Her responses were far removed from the curt attempts cleverness of such columnists. Her response to a habitual stutterer began, “Last December I took the baby Sugars to a winter solstice ritual at a hippy retreat center in the wood.” To a plaintive call for advice about getting over a breakup, she wrote, “You let time pass. That’s the cure. You survive the days. You cry and wallow and lament and scratch your way back up through the months. And then one day you find yourself alone a bench in the sun and you close your eyes and lean your head back and you realize you’re okay.”
