![]() ![]() Be brave enough to break your own heart.” It means you wish to change the terms of one particular relationship. It doesn’t mean you’re morally bankrupt or psychologically demented or a nymphomaniac. Leaving doesn’t mean you’re incapable of real love or that you’ll never love anyone else again. "You are not a terrible person for wanting to break up with someone you love. The essay that would go on to give the book its title, this gorgeous piece has Strayed wisely and hilariously giving advice to her 20-something self. In honor of the show, here are five essential “Dear Sugar” columns you need to read. ![]() Fans of Strayed's writing in particular, will enjoy this news: The trio is teaming up for an HBO series based on Strayed’s much beloved “Dear Sugar” advice columns on The Rumpus, which she later compiled into a best-selling book “Tiny Beautiful Things.”Īccording to Deadline, the series will follow a family in Portland, Oregon who “live by the mantra that the truth will never kill you.” It's all very cryptic, but as long as it features some of Strayed’s exquisite pearls of literary wisdom, we are here for it. “Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses.Almost a year after “Wild,” Cheryl Strayed, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon are stepping back in the ring together. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer’s life into account but also Strayed’s. ![]() Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. Strayed is an eloquent storyteller, and her clear-eyed prose offers a bracing empathy absent from most self-help blather.” -Nora Krug, The Washington Post “A fascinating blend of memoir and self-help. “Wise and compassionate.” -Gregory Cowles, New York Times Book Review “Inside the List” The book’s disclosures-on the part of both the writer and her correspondents-is ultimately courageous and engaging stuff.” -Anna Holmes, New York Times Book Review “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. “It seems inadequate to call ‘Dear Sugar’ an advice column, because it exists in a category all its own. Part memoir, part essay collection, the aptly titled Tiny Beautiful Things gathers together stunningly written pieces on everything from sex to love to the agonies of bereavement. In her responses, Strayed shines a torch of insight and comfort into the darkness of these people’s lives, cutting to the heart of what it means to love, to grieve and to suffer.” -Ilana Teitelbaum, Shelf Awareness Strayed offers insights as exquisitely phrased as they are powerful, confronting some of the biggest and most painful of life’s questions. Strayed has proved during her tenure at the website the Rumpus, where she has helmed the Dear Sugar column since 2010, that the only requirement is that you give great advice-tender, frank, uplifting and unrelenting. Strayed’s columns, now collected as Tiny Beautiful Things, advise people on such diverse struggles as miscarriage, infidelity, poverty and addiction, and it's really hard to think of anyone better at the job. Strayed has succeeded largely because she shares personal, often heartbreaking stories from her own life in answering readers' questions. Her experiences are qualifications, in a sense, as Strayed has taken the wisdom she gained from personal tragedies, including her mother's early death and the breakup of her first marriage, and generously applied it to all manner of issues. What runs through all the columns, which range from a few hundred to a few thousand words in length, is Strayed’s gift at panning out from the problem in question. ![]() Often, the fuller picture that Strayed gives us illustrates what needs to happen for the letter-writers to change, to pull themselves out of their current predicament, to see things in a different way, to act. Here is Strayed’s breathtaking ability to get to the core of her own failures and triumphs, which she often does through surprising and sharp imagery. Strayed has covered much ground in these transformative pieces. ![]()
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