“It seems inadequate to call ‘Dear Sugar’ an advice column, because it exists in a category all its own. “Wise and compassionate.” -Gregory Cowles, New York Times Book Review “Inside the List” The book’s disclosures-on the part of both the writer and her correspondents-is ultimately courageous and engaging stuff.” -Anna Holmes, New York Times Book Review “Strayed’s worldview-her empathy, her nonjudgment, her belief in the fundamental logic of people’s emotions and experiences despite occasional evidence to the contrary-begins to seep into readers’ consciousness in such a way that they can apply her generosity of spirit to their own and, for a few hours at least, become better people. Strayed is an eloquent storyteller, and her clear-eyed prose offers a bracing empathy absent from most self-help blather.” -Nora Krug, The Washington Post “A fascinating blend of memoir and self-help. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer’s life into account but also Strayed’s. “Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses.
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