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Option B

  • 240 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 11 editions

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1 About this book

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void," she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe."

Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.

Option B combines Sheryl's personal insights with Adam's research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart -- and her journal--to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death.

Good for readers who want: a true life story and business.

  • Relationships
  • Grief
  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Bereavement
  • Biography & autobiography
  • Personal Memoirs
  • Business & economics
  • Family relationships

2 About Sheryl Sandberg

Born 1969

Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American technology executive, philanthropist and writer. She was the chief operating officer of Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022 and is the founder of LeanIn. Org. Sandberg is the first woman to have been elected to Facebook's board of directors. As head of the company's advertising business, Sandberg has been credited for making the company profitable.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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