A review by scvqa
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

“One hot afternoon during the era in which you’ve gotten yourself ridiculously tangled up with heroin, you will be riding the bus and thinking what a worthless piece of crap you are when a little girl will get on the bus holding the strings of two purple balloons. She’ll offer you one of the balloons, but you won’t take it because you believe you no longer have a right to such tiny beautiful things. You’re wrong. You do."

“Did you know your sink was made in Argentina?” I asked when I was able to speak.
“Argentina?” he replied.
By way of answer, I reached up and ran my finger over the tiny sticker on the bottom of his sink that said Made in Argentina.” [...] That Made in Argentina sticker isn’t under the bathroom sink anymore. We don’t even live in the house with that bathroom sink. Before we moved out—years after we first became lovers—Mr. Sugar meticulously peeled the sticker off and with it he made me a card.
Made in Argentina it says on the front. Inside he wrote, “But it feels just like home.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship

Minor: Cursing