The epigraph that i chose for the book comes from leonard cone, who, as you know, i'm sort of obsessed with. It goes, there is a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in. So if you're inclined to bitter sweetness, you know, you look at the troubles of the world d and you also insist on seeing the beauty and the joy. And kind of always looking for transcendence within yo with an acknowledgment of what is still broken.
Susan Cain shot to fame in 2012 with her international bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, in which she urged society to cultivate space for the undervalued introverts among us. Now she's back with another book asking us to reassess how we think about self expression: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. The book argues that by embracing the bittersweet at the heart of life – the sense that joy and sorrow are always paired – we can gain a heightened appreciation of the wonder and beauty of our own personal experience and throughout wider culture too. Our host for the discussion is writer, academic and broadcaster, Shahidha Bari.
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