Cheryl Strayed Explains: What is "Tiny Beautiful Things"?

Tiny Beautiful Things is a bestselling book released by Cheryl Strayed in 2012. It has sold over a million copies worldwide, spent over 2 years on the NY Times Bestseller list and Hulu is also releasing a TV series based on the book.

The book serves as a compilation of the best of the best letters and responses that Strayed gave and received while she spent years as an online, anonymous advice giver known as "Dear Sugar". Here is how Cheryl Strayed describes Tiny Beautiful Things:

"Tiny Beautiful Things is about the endangered art of listening to and believing in each other."

"The letters I received were remarkable for their honesty and vulnerability. It was like people were confessing to me the deepest truths of their lives."

"I think that's the reason people respond so powerfully to Tiny Beautiful Things. It's not just that it's me, but that it's a way of saying, 'I'm here with you in this mess.'"

"The book is about the human experience, about suffering and joy and love and loss, and about how we help each other through it all."

"Tiny Beautiful Things is about the enormous power of empathy."

"I hope that readers will come away from Tiny Beautiful Things with a renewed sense of faith in humanity."

"The book is about the small moments of beauty and kindness that can sustain us even in our darkest times."

"I believe that the book speaks to something essential about what it means to be alive, and about the connections that make us human."

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