There is the story of the girl that Sugar taught who came from an abusive home and who had “made it” when Cheryl saw her working a decade or so later at Taco Bell. So many stories about Cheryl’s life in this book live within me – by “live” I mean that I think about it at least three times a week.
“Dear Sugar” column was the unconditional love of the Internet.Īfter so many essays (or columns), I had to put away the book to sob and collect myself. When the Internet was (and is) a rabbit-hole of how everyone’s life is better than you, this advice column gave strangers the comfort to know that someone is there, someone is suffering just as you are, someone understands. She has “been there,” as the extended title of the book suggests. Sugar doesn’t just advise people, she narrates a time in her life when she faced a similar problem. You’d think that no one could cry while reading an advice column – but then you’d be wrong. There are some problems here that will sound relatable to you (some you have lived, some you will understand), and then there will be others that you cannot imagine to bear (but your heart will throb with pain anyway). This book will give you that in the most meaningful and most painful of ways. There is nothing more human than knowing someone is experiencing the same things that you are. I’d take this book over Cheryl’s memoir any day. And if you have read (or watched) Wild, I assure you this book has a better writing style. Sugar, later revealed, was beloved Cheryl Strayed.
Strangers ask another stranger (Sugar) about their problems on love, life, paying bills, relationships, sex, and every other possible topic under the sun. This isn’t an ordinary advice column of sappy life-advice that tells you to tattoo YOLO on your forearm. I know the reputation advice columns have but stick with me here. This book is a series of advice columns addressed to “Sugar” that was run at The Rumpus. I have 104 Highlights/Notes marked on Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things – my highest ever in the six years of Kindle reading.
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