Tiny Beautiful Things by Strayed, Cheryl -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction by Steve Almond Part I IT WAS ALWAYS ONLY US

Like an Iron Bell How You Get Unstuck That Ecstatic Parade A Motorcycle with No One on It The Reckoning There’s a Bundle on Your Head Write Like a Motherfucker A New, More Fractured Light Dudes in the Woods Icky Thoughts Turn Me On Reach

Part II WHATEVER MYSTERIOUS STARLIGHT THAT GUIDED YOU THIS FAR

The Baby Bird Go! Go! Go! The Black Arc of It Hell Is Other People’s Boyfriends Thwack, Thwack, Thwack The Woman Hanging on the End of the Line No Mystery About Sperm The Mad Sex Confessor The Future Has an Ancient Heart Faux Friendship Footsie The Human Scale

Part III CARRY THE WATER YOURSELF

Beauty and the Beast I Chose van Gogh The Other Side of the Pool The Truth That Lives There Too Much Paint Tiny Revolutions Not Enough No Is Golden Romantic Love Is Not a Competitive Sport A Big Life The Known Unknowns On Your Island

Part IV YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE BROKEN FOR ME

The Magic of Wanting to Be A Glorious Something Else A Tunnel That Wakes You How the Real Work Is Done The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry Us Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone Waiting by the Phone We Are All Savages Inside The Lusty Broad The Bad Things You Did Bend The Obliterated Place

Part V PUT IT IN A BOX AND WAIT

A Bit of Sully in Your Sweet We Are Here to Build the House The Empty Bowl Transcend A Shimmering Slice of Your Mysterious Destiny The Ordinary Miraculous We Call This a Clusterfuck Are You My Mother? Ten Angry Boys Tiny Beautiful Things

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