Brave Enough
After Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed mined a decade of personal essays, advice columns, novels, and lectures and pulled out the quiet sentences her readers had been tattooing on themselves. Brave Enough collects more than a hundred of those one-line and one-paragraph distillations, organized loosely around love, fear, work, and the hard practice of being honest about your own life. The book is short by design, the kind of thing you can pick up before bed or read straight through in an afternoon, then reach for again on a bad morning. Strayed's voice is unembarrassed about earnestness, plainspoken, hard-won, and committed to the unfashionable position that ordinary courage can in fact carry an ordinary person through. A gateway for anyone who has not yet discovered Sugar.
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A pocket-size collection of Cheryl Strayed's most quoted lines, pulled from Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and her essays. A book to read in any order, on any kind of bad day.
Brave Enough is a 2015 collection of quotes drawn from Cheryl Strayed's earlier writing, including Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things. It is short and gift-book-style rather than a full memoir or essay collection.
Most readers start with Tiny Beautiful Things, Strayed's longer essay collection from her Dear Sugar advice column. Brave Enough works as a follow-up keepsake of her most-quoted lines.
Brave Enough was written by Cheryl Strayed, published in 2015 by Knopf Canada.
Brave Enough is 160 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Brave Enough takes most readers 2 to 3 hours to finish.
Brave Enough is a standalone novel by Cheryl Strayed, not part of a series.
Brave Enough is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
