Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole (Unabridged) Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole (Unabridged)

Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the fullest.

Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go.”—BRENÉ BROWN, author of Atlas of the Heart

“Susan Cain has described and validated my existence once again!”—GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed

“The perfect cure for toxic positivity.”—ADAM GRANT, author of Think Again

LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Mashable

Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of long­ing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute aware­ness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired. 
 
If you’ve ever wondered why you like sad music . . . 
If you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day . . . 
If you react intensely to music, art, nature, and beauty . . .
 
Then you probably identify with the bitter­sweet state of mind.
 
With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an un­tapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she em­ploys the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, con­nection, and transcendence.
 
Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain, whether from a death or breakup, addiction or illness. If we don’t acknowledge our own heartache, she says, we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know—or will know—loss and suffering, we can turn toward one another. 
 
At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways.

*Includes a downloadable PDF containing a Bittersweet quiz from the book

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
SC
Susan Cain
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:35
hr min
RELEASED
2022
April 5
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
455
MB

Customer Reviews

Jackie fitzs ,

Difficult to listen to

The narrator is difficult to listen to after a few minutes.
What happens when the author narrates their book.

spiraldreams ,

Beyond words…..

This book was my out breath, the validation of a truth I have known my entire life. Thank you, Susan Cain.

Andy J. Miller ,

This Book Hit ME HARD

This book reconnected me to my spiritual side in a deeply profound way that didn’t insult or negate my intellect or compromise what I know to be true about the harsh realities of life. This book was a spiritual encounter for me. Thank you Susan Cain!

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