
Here at Salon we're reading the columns with boxes of tissue and raised fists of solidarity, shaking our heads with awe and amusement * Salon * These pieces are nothing short of dynamite.

She shines out amid the sea of fakeness * New Republic * Sugar is the ultimate advice columnist for the internet age. The writing is addictively, breathtakingly great - Viv Groskop * Observer *Ĭharming, idiosyncratic, luminous, profane. It made me laugh out loud and it made me gasp with disbelief.

Strayed's worldview - her empathy, her nonjudgment, her belief in the fundamental logic of people's emotions and experiences despite occasional evidence to the contrary - begins to seep into readers' consciousness in such a way that they can apply her generosity of spirit to their own and, for a few hours at least, become better people.
