![]() ![]() ![]() Highly recommended.” - Molly McArdle, Library Journal (May 15, 2012) (starred review) Beautifully written and genuinely wise, this book is full of heartache and love. VERDICT: Part advice, part personal essay, these pieces grapple with life’s biggest questions. She answers queries on subjects ranging from professional jealousy to leaving a loved partner to coping with the death of a child. First appearing on the Rumpus in 2010, her column ‘Dear Sugar’ quickly attracted a large and devoted following with its cut-to-the-quick aphorisms like ‘Write like a motherf*cker’ and ‘Be brave enough to break your own heart.’ This collection gathers up the best of Sugar, whose trademark is deeply felt and frank responses grounded in her own personal experience in many ways, it is a portrait of Strayed herself. “This beloved Internet advice columnist, using the pseudonym Sugar, revealed herself in early 2012 to be the acclaimed novelist and memoirist Strayed. ![]()
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