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Bittersweet (Oprah’s Book Club) audiobook
- By: Susan Cain
- Narrator: Susan Cain
- Category: Emotions, Psychology
- Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Bittersweet (Oprah’s Book Club) Audiobook Summary
#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
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Bittersweet (Oprah’s Book Club) Full Details
| Narrator | Susan Cain |
| Length | 7 hours 35 minutes |
| Author | Susan Cain |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593506066 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Bittersweet (Oprah’s Book Club) is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: oprah winfrey, oprah's book club, oprah book club list 2023, toxic positivity, music, self help books for mental health, self help books for women, self love book, self esteem, self care book, quiet susan cain, gretchen rubin, sad books, trauma, feelings book, healing after loss, belonging, spiritual books, new york times best sellers, self love, psychology, self help books, personality types, Bittersweet, Susan Cain, self care books, bereavement gifts, grief gifts, grief books, mental health gifts, grief, mental health books, Psychology, Emotions, Self-Help, Personal Growth, General, Self-Help, Spiritual The BISAC Subject Code is Emotions, Psychology
Additional info
The publisher of the Bittersweet (Oprah’s Book Club) is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593506066.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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