Tiny Beautiful Things

Letters from strangers, answered with unusual candour, form the substance of Cheryl Strayed's collection of Dear Sugar columns. Writing anonymously for years, Strayed replied to people wrestling with grief, betrayal, money, addiction, ambition and love that had gone wrong. The responses gathered here work less as instruction than as company: she answers by telling the truth about her own life, then turns back to the letter writer with clear-eyed sympathy. What distinguishes this copy: • Advice columns collected from the Dear Sugar archive • Short, self-contained pieces that can be read in any order • Candid writing about loss, family rupture and starting again • A tone that treats readers as capable adults rather than patients A good match for readers of reflective nonfiction, memoir and personal essays, and for anyone looking for a gift with substance; find it at Boipoka.