Tiny Beautiful Things

"You will thrive not in spite of your losses or sorrows, but because of them"

Cheryl Strayed

Tiny Beautiful Things

Life has its ups and downs. It can be wonderful, and it can be hard. Life is complicated and simple at the same time, and it can be so hard to sort through all of the pieces when it is all you can do to keep afloat in a sea of them. It can also be really hard to ask for advice or help, especially from people we know, people we are close to. It can be really scary to ask for advice from strangers.

For years Cheryl Strayed wrote an anonymous advice column for the Rumpus, helping people through their troubles and confusions. Her responses are something entirely different from those found in any advice column I have ever seen. She is kind, she is witty, she is compassionate and her responses to those writing "Dear Sugar" are so incredibly understanding and beautiful. 

This book was wonderful. Sugar's responses to her the questions thrown her way are wonderful, and so different from the responses in any advice column I have ever read. The letters are so intimate, and Sugar proves herself worthy of this trust in her responses, which are so loving, well thought out, and compassionate. 

Reading this book was fantastic. I have experienced things similar to some of the people who have written in, and I have experienced things that are completely different, but Sugars responses to all of the letters were wonderful, as she examines the problems at hand and reduces them down to the critical questions. She does this without judgement, boiling down complicated questions into simple important ones. I highly recommend

this book.