Bittersweet by Susan Cain - ISBN: 9780241300664
Hardcover
Embrace sorrow: bittersweetness unlocks love, creativity, and a meaningful life.

Bittersweet

How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

  • Hardcover

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    27 April 2022

Summary

In this inspiring masterpiece, bestselling author Susan Cain shows the power of the “bittersweet” – the outlook that values the experiences of loss and pain, which can lead to growth and beauty. Understanding bittersweetness can change the way we work, the way we create and the way we love.

Each chapter helps us navigate an issue that define our lives, from love to death and from authenticity to creativity. Using examples ranging from music and cinema to parenting and business, as wel…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241300664
ISBN-10:0241300665
Author:Susan Cain
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Viking
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:27 April 2022
Weight:571g
Dimensions:240mm x 162mm x 33mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

I can’t get Quiet out of my head. It is an important book - so persuasive and timely and heartfelt it should inevitably effect change in schools and offices

I’ll place Bittersweet in the hands of all my feely, achy, beautiful friends – Glennon Doyle, author of #1 NYT bestseller UntamedSusan Cain’s Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go – Brené Brown, author of the NYT bestseller Atlas of the HeartThis is the rare book that doesn’t just open your eyes - it touches your heart and sings to your soul – Adam Grant, #1 NYT bestselling author of Think AgainThis book is an absolute triumph: it’s for anyone who has ever really lived, loved, or lost – Greg McKeown, author of NYT bestsellers Effortless and EssentialismAn amazing and profound book … every single person should read it – Johann Hari, bestselling author of Stolen FocusI can’t get Quiet out of my head. It is an important book - so persuasive and timely and heartfelt it should inevitably effect change in schools and offices – Jon Ronson on ‘Quiet’

About The Author

Susan Cain

Susan Cain is the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Quiet- The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has sold over 2 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. Since her 2012 TED talk was posted online it has been viewed over 40 million times. Her writing on introversion and shyness has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Oprah magazine and Psychology Today. Cain has spoken at Microsoft and Google, has appeared on the BBC, and her work has been featured on the cover of Time, in the Daily Mail, the FT, the Atlantic, GQ, Grazia, the New Yorker, Wired, Fast Company, the Washington Post, CNN and beyond. She lives in the Hudson River Valley with her husband and two sons.

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