AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK<\/p>\n
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER <\/b>— FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN’T STOP TALKING<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
“Amazing and profound . . . every single person should read it” Johann Hari<\/b><\/p>\n
“Moving and eloquent” Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Whether you long for the partner who broke up with you, or the one you dream of meeting; whether you hunger for the happy childhood you’ll never have, or for the divine; whether you yearn for a lost person, an unborn child, the fountain of youth, or unconditional love: These are all manifestations of the same great ache…<\/i><\/p>\n
In this inspiring and genre-bending work, Susan Cain – author of the international bestseller Quiet<\/i> – shows us the power of a “bittersweet” outlook: the overlooked tendency to states of longing and poignancy, and a piercing joy at the beauty of the world.<\/p>\n
Embracing the bittersweet means understanding that light and dark, birth and death – bitter and sweet – are forever paired, and that by recognising this we can find the true path to creativity and connection.<\/p>\n
Bringing to light the ideas of artists, writers and thinkers from all over the world, and her own quest for answers over the course of a lifetime, Susan Cain fundamentally shifts our understanding of life by teaching us how to turn sorrow into an enriching superpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this inspiring masterpiece, bestselling author Susan Cain shows the power of ‘bittersweetness’ – a tendency toward sorrow and longing, an acute awareness of passing time, and a piercing joy when beholding beauty. But what are the powers of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook? she asks. And why has our culture been so blind to its value? Bittersweetness recognises that light and dark, birth and death – bitter and sweet – are forever paired. As ‘Bittersweet’ shows, our obsession with happiness is not making us happy, healthy, or whole. It’s only by embracing our darker emotions – as well as the light – that we discover our deepest meaning and connection, love and joy. It can change the way we work, the way we create and the way we love – for it is the hidden source of our love stories, moonshots and masterpieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1220],"product_tag":[2086,587,2506],"class_list":["post-98221","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-mind-body-spirit","product_tag-coping-with-death-bereavement","product_tag-prose-non-fiction","product_tag-sociology-death-dying","pa_book_author-cain-susan","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-155-2-edition23","pa_imprint-penguin-books","pa_language-english","pa_pages-9196","pa_publisher-penguin-books","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n