Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

by Cheryl Strayed

INTRODUCTION

Tiny Beautiful Things is the book I wrote by accident. When I took on the unpaid gig of writing the Dear Sugar advice column for The Rumpus, I’d recently completed the first draft of my second book, Wild. I said yes to Dear Sugar I thought it would be a fun thing to do on the side in between writing books. It didn’t take long to see that I’d been entirely wrong. It was a fun thing, but also so much more than that. This work that began as a lark has come to be some of the most meaningful work of my life. The thing I love the most about writing Dear Sugar is how deeply it connects me to others and how truly it reminds me—and I believe the readers as well—that in love, in loss, in hardship, and in triumph, we are not alone.