Bittersweet Book Club Kit
Download this book club kit, complete with a letter from the author. Discussion questions, writing prompts, Bittersweet teachings, and a Bittersweet playlist!
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How Sorrow And Longing Make Us Whole
In her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook on life, and why our culture has been so blind to its value.
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 her mega-bestseller, 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 the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love.
Susan Cain’s Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go. I’ve thought about the depth and beauty in Cain’s research and storytelling every day since I finished the book. I will always be grateful for how much Quiet and Bittersweet have helped me understand myself and how I engage with the world.
—Brené Brown, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atlas of the Heart
A decade ago, I found myself inside Quiet. With Bittersweet, Susan Cain has described and validated my existence once again! Her new book reaffirms that my constant, achy awareness of life’s brutiful is a way of being shared across the ages with artists, healers, and anyone who pays deep attention. I’ll place Bittersweet in the hands of all my feely, achy, beautiful friends.
—Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed and founder and president of Together Rising
This is the rare book that doesn’t just open your eyes—it touches your heart and sings to your soul. Susan Cain gave a voice to introverts, and now she masterfully paints our heaviest emotions in a light that’s long overdue. Bittersweet is the perfect cure for toxic positivity and a sparkling ode to the beauty of the human condition.
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again
Bittersweet is astonishing: one of the most gracefully written, palpably human books I’ve read in years.
—Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of DRIVE
This book is an absolute triumph: it’s for anyone who has ever really lived, loved, or lost.
—Greg McKeown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Effortless
Bittersweet is an incredibly uplifting book—transcendent even.
—Writer’s Digest
An antidote for our uncertain times and a toolbox for using angst and yearning as a means of transforming pain into creativity, transcendence, and love.
—Oprah Daily
Cain has written a gorgeous, compassionate, companionate book.
—Toronto Star
An original and contrarian thinker, Susan Cain compellingly argues that the messier parts of life might indirectly lead us to the most rewarding parts of it.
—Seattle Times
Bittersweet is a beautiful read in its entirety.
—Maria Popova, The Marginalian
Susan Cain finds what is undervalued, quiet, and precious. In Bittersweet she takes you to a room in your own heart full of treasures that you had forgotten about. This is a book to read, feel, and savor.
—Jonathan Haidt
Bittersweet…resists classification, hovering like a butterfly between poetic mysticism and social psychology, as it dips into philosophy and Buddhism in search of the correlation between beauty and sadness.”
—Ian McFarlane, The Canberra Times
Named BITTERSWEET one of the “Best Self Help Books On Topics That Matter Most”!
—The Wall Street Journal
Download this book club kit, complete with a letter from the author. Discussion questions, writing prompts, Bittersweet teachings, and a Bittersweet playlist!
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Here’s the companion playlist to the new book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole! The book reveals the power of a bittersweet, even melancholic, outlook on life, and why our culture has been so blind to its value.
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