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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
The feeling of melancholy and homesickness for a place that doesn't necessarily exist is one that I have experienced before. Grief, sadness, and yearning are emotions seldom celebrated but rather hidden away and endured in silence. Cain goes into a plethora of topics adjacent to this subject, including spirituality, music, toxic positivity, immortality, and generational trauma.
She incorporates research from a wide range of sources, illustrating the pervasiveness of sorrow and longing in ancient and recent works. She also shares plenty of personal anecdotes (from herself and others) to illustrate her points. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of sorrow and longing, with the research and stories woven into the text seamlessly. She offers a different way of thinking about the bittersweet areas of life. harnessing them for true human connection and compassion. This type of writing is what I hoped Brene Brown's books had been, but those didn't resonate with me the way it has with so many others.
The style of this book is the perfect mix of self-help, informative non-fiction, and memoir. Her first book about the value of introversion was groundbreaking, and this one is just as momentous.
She incorporates research from a wide range of sources, illustrating the pervasiveness of sorrow and longing in ancient and recent works. She also shares plenty of personal anecdotes (from herself and others) to illustrate her points. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of sorrow and longing, with the research and stories woven into the text seamlessly. She offers a different way of thinking about the bittersweet areas of life. harnessing them for true human connection and compassion. This type of writing is what I hoped Brene Brown's books had been, but those didn't resonate with me the way it has with so many others.
The style of this book is the perfect mix of self-help, informative non-fiction, and memoir. Her first book about the value of introversion was groundbreaking, and this one is just as momentous.