This bestselling book from the author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus’s Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor, insight, compassion—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of … great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.
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From the author of Wild. She writes an advice column, and this is a collection of her BEST. I actually listen to the Dear Sugar podcast and don’t really like the advice they give (I enjoy listening to the letter-writers’ problems and think about what advice I would give). But in the book, Cheryl has the most beautiful, poignant advice on …
Your advice was supportive and intelligent when you mentioned your favorite job was helping high school girls graduate by introducing them to poetry dance and rock climbing to help build their self esteem I was touched by your ability not only to recover from your own issues but to have the strength and courage to help others with theirs
My amazing friend Elaine gave me this book. I was not sure why, but she said I needed to read it and that it would change me. I shrugged and said “Okay”. She was right. As usual. 😉
There were parts of this book that completely wrecked me. Just tore my heart into little bits and threw them around. Some of the stories were so very similar to mine …
The voice of Dear Sugar is the most loving and yet no joke hard-truth giving I have ever read. It is the voice I want in my head. The stories of folks in their struggle and the honest supportive response offered tore me wide open. Thank you.
My best friend (who has great taste) loaned me her copy of this book with a glowing, heartfelt recommendation, so I was predisposed to like it. However, I have to admit that I wasn’t all that excited about the prospect of a compilation of advice columns, which, in my experience, lean toward the cold and patronizing. It seems an unlikely place to …
I love this book! Get it – you will read and re-read it!
Well written and wise
Heartfelt, even if a tad repetitive by the end.
This book discusses the beauty and wonder in sorrow. It takes the reader down unexpected dark ally’s to find that there is love and kindness and warmth in the most unexpected places. Cheryl Strayed nailed the place between warm, comforting but also eye-opening and shocking. Read this when you need a little soul coffee pick-me-up.
I love this book so much that I immediately bought two more copies to give as gifts after I read it because I wanted to share the wisdom and honesty. Cheryl Strayed’s writing sweeps readers into the book and new perspectives on life and the past.
This instantly became one of my top five favorite books. Highly recommend.
I believe that a great writer writes from her heart. No sonnets and metaphors, no matter how beautiful they are, will touch even the most naive soul unless they come from the deepest, the most private thoughts of a writer. In that, Mrs. Sugar has achieved what so many others tried but failed.
Beautiful. I gave it to everyone for Christmas. So so good.
I could read only a few letters at a time because I found Cheryl’s answers so compassionate and moving.
As Sugar, Cheryl Strayed writes an advice column and this collection groups her best, most evocative letters and replies. Really, this deserves better than an ‘okay’ in terms of writing – Sugar puts the writing of all other advice columnists to shame. Reasons for the okay, not good: the letters are as beautiful as the responses, sometimes more so. …