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Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed

5/27/2015

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In this collection of advice columns from “Dear Sugar”, people write in with problems from the mundane (I like a guy who doesn’t like me back!) to the heartbreaking (I’ve just lost a child and don’t know what to do). Strayed treats each letter writer with compassion and also directness, giving advice on how to handle their particular situation and some extra advice on how to live a life free of drama. The big takeaway is to live your life in a way that makes you happy first, surrounding yourself with people and things that are good for you and staying far away from those that are bad for you, even if you think that they should be good for you.

But what sets Strayed apart from other advice columnists is that she shares pieces of her life with the letter writers. We find out about the terrible life-altering things that have happened to her in bits and pieces as we read through the letters, but we also know from her advice that her life now is just the way that she wants it to be, that she and we can overcome any obstacles and live our best lives. If you’ve ever felt like things weren’t going your way, there is a letter in this book that will speak to you.


--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library

Find Tiny Beautiful Things in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.

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