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Tiny Beautiful Things

  • 368 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2012
  • 8 editions

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1 About this book

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar is a 2012 self-help book by American author and podcaster Cheryl Strayed. Tiny Beautiful Things is a collection of essays compiled from Strayed's "Dear Sugar" advice column, which she wrote anonymously, on The Rumpus, an online literary magazine. The columns focus as much on her literary memoir as they do on advice and self-help.

The book was published on July 10, 2012, by Vintage Books, a division of Random House Publishing, and debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller list in the advice and self-help category.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Good for readers who want: self-improvement and a true life story.

  • Self-help
  • Family relationships
  • Personal Memoirs
  • Conduct of life
  • Consolation

2 About Cheryl Strayed

Born 1968

Cheryl Strayed (; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American writer and podcast host. She has written four books: the novel Torch (2006) and the nonfiction books Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012), Tiny Beautiful Things (2012), and Brave Enough (2015). Wild, the story of Strayed's 1995 hike up the Pacific Crest Trail, is an international bestseller and was adapted into the 2014 Academy Award-nominated film Wild.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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