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    Jun 14, 2022 5 minutes
    by AMBER TUCKER, STEPHANIE DOMET, BARRY BOYCE, KYLEE ROSS, and OYINDA LAGUNJU

    BITTERSWEET

    How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

    Susan Cain • Crown

    Susan Cain wants to know if we can transform the way we love, lead, parent, talk about death, and understand each other by embracing the “hidden riches of sorrow and longing.” In looking for the answer, Cain turns to philosophers (past and present), researchers, songs, poems, and anecdotes and weaves them together in nine chapters.

    We’re never given a single answer to what is possible when we embrace the in bittersweet emotions, partly because each of us gets to choose how and when to let sorrow in. (And if you’re not sure what that means in your life, Cain developed a “Bittersweet Quiz” to gauge whether you inhabit a bittersweet state instinctively.) Instead, we follow Cain on an exploration of the wisdom in

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