Susan Cain employs a mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing. Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we realize that all humans know loss and suffering, we can turn toward each other. And we can learn to transform our own pain into creativity, transcendence, and connection.
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