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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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Overview
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, originally published in 2012, is a compilation of American author Cheryl Strayed’s advice columns for The Rumpus, written between 2010 and 2012. At The Rumpus Strayed wrote anonymously under the pseudonym Sugar; however, by the end of 2012, Tiny Beautiful Things was published under her real name, and her memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, had become a New York Times number one bestseller and was the first book chosen for Oprah Winfrey’s book club.
Strayed’s Sugar has remained a staple of advice-giving. After resigning from column writing at The Rumpus in 2012, she has since appeared on the Dear Sugars podcast with Steve Almond (2014-2018) and the New York Times podcast Sugar Calling (2020).
This guide uses the eBook version of the 2022 10th-anniversary edition published by Atlantic Books Ltd.
Note: The eBook edition does not contain page numbers for the advice letters in Part 6 of the book.
Content Warning: The source material discusses substance abuse, sexual assault, and child sexual abuse.
Summary
Tiny Beautiful Things begins with a preface by Strayed explaining that when she initially took on the unpaid post of advice columnist for The Rumpus in 2010, she thought it would be fun.
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