CHERYL STRAYED is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and became an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon; Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a national best seller now the basis of the WBUR podcast Dear Sugar Radio, co-hosted with Steve Almond; and Torch, her debut novel. Her books have been translated into forty languages, and her essays and other writings have appeared in numerous publications.
“Gorgeous, a little 135-page gem. The one book every woman must
read this year. The stop-whatever-you’re-doing-and-read-this-now
book, in which every turn of phrase is tattoo-worthy, every tidbit
of wisdom too good not to share with every single one of
your girlfriends. It’s the kind of book that makes your
highlighters run out of ink, and your Post-Its run out of
stick. In the 100-plus quotes, thoughts, words of wisdom, and
tidbits of beauty that Strayed has compiled, you will recognize
yourself over and over again, in the best and worst and most
essential ways . . . It will encourage you, breath by breath,
unpaid bill by unpaid bill, bucket list goal by bucket list goal,
all the way to the you whom you want to be—however long it might
take. . . . Strayed can take readers from the church to the saloon
in literally three words or less. She invites you to quietly marvel
at the universe with her, and then promptly demands that you go out
and participate in it, followed by a swift kick to the rear. She
keeps it real, none of her words are wasted, and they are always
the right ones. [This book] acts like a personal guru for joy,
acceptance and forgiveness, productivity, endurance and
transformation . . . Truly amazing; it’s as though the words
literally leapt off the pages of Brave Enough and generated a
little cyclone of positive energy in my living room . . .
Brilliant, purse-sized perfection.” —E. CE Miller, Bustle
“Captivating. Personal authenticity, gender politics, leaning
into the light: whether writing a book or speaking one-to-one,
Strayed seems, above all, unapologetically herself . . . The power
of her words is palpable—and far-reaching.” —Abby Haglage, The
Daily Beast
“An elegantly bound collection of Strayed sayings, ranging from a
few words to entire paragraphs . . . Strayed earned cult
status with her anonymous advice column, ‘Dear Sugar,’ on The
Rumpus. She has become the unlikely queen of a different
bookstore aisle than she expected, a guru whose message is
anything but simple or glib. Rather, she tends towards
emphasizing how deeply flawed we human beings are, and how we
have to keep trying to be better anyway, even as life throws
slings, arrows, and tremendous grief our way.” —Sarah Seltzer,
Flavorwire
“A short, taut, Swiss Army knife [book] of quotations, one that
applies to deciding whether to have a third doughnut or an
extramarital affair, make a mean-spirited joke—or get up from the
desk before a book review is finished. Cheryl Strayed is a
tough-love truth-teller. In the introduction she writes that a good
quote can provide in a sentence or two ‘a clear eyed perspective,
or a swift kick in the pants.’ Hers do both. Brave Enough amount[s]
to a galvanizing call to be bigger, bolder, more generous. We
already know what to do, Strayed believes; we just need to heed
that inner voice . . . ‘I believe in the power of words to help us
reset our intentions, clarify our thoughts, and create a
counternarrative to the voice of doubt in our heads—the one that
says, You can’t, you won’t, you shouldn’t have,’ she writes. [This
book] helps you create that counternarrative. [It shouts,] ‘Yes!”
—Jennifer Reese, The Washington Post
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