Tiny Beautiful Things

Before writing Wild, which relaunched Oprah's Book Club, and is of course being made into a movie, Cheryl Strayed wrote an advice column for The Rumpus online. This is a collection of her advice there.

To reduce it to a compendium of online advice is to diminish its beautiful writing. Like the best advice columnists, while I may not wrestle with the conundrum of whether I should have sex for money or attend Christmas with a drug addicted and abusive brother, there is in each answer a kernel of something bigger and potentially relevant to everyone. Without resorting to fey sentimentality, this is a book I'll revisit over and over again when I need a bit of acceptance and understanding, you may find it does the same for you too sweet pea ;)