Torch (50 page)
Authors: Cheryl Strayed
Available in hardcover and eBook from Knopf
Please visit
CherylStrayed.com
tiny beautiful things
advice on love and life from Dear Sugar
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ollow Cheryl Strayed on her next journey, as Sugar: the wildly popular (and once-anonymous) online columnist thousands have turned to for all kinds of advice. Her answers—rich with humor, compassion, and absolute honesty—will surprise, delight, and inspire you
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Tiny Beautiful Things
brings the best of Dear Sugar together in one place for the first time, and includes never-before-published columns: it’s an essential guide for everything life throws your way
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“Charming, idiosyncratic, luminous, profane.… Sugar is the ultimate advice columnist for the internet age.… She shines out amid the sea of fakeness.”
—The New Republic
“These pieces are nothing short of dynamite.”
—Salon
“Men and women of all ages contact Sugar hoping she can solve their problems.… Her Golden Rule—‘Trust Yourself’—pushes the author and her readers to embrace themselves and not be afraid of asking life’s complex questions.… A realistic and poignant compilation of the intricacies of relationships.”
—Kirkus
“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start there.”
“Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering.”
“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
“Believe that the fairy tale is true.”
“Inhabit the beauty that lives in your beastly body and strive to see the beauty in all the other beasts.”
“Every last one of us can do better than give up.”
“The only way out of a hole is to climb out.”
a vintage original
Available July 2012 everywhere books are sold
Please visit
CherylStrayed.com