With her new book 'Bittersweet,' Susan Cain argues against our unrelenting obsession with “normative sunshine.” Think: chicken soup for the sad girl soul.
The overlap between introverts and the type who’d read a book about existential longing isn’t exactly zero, but Cain prefers to consider the thematic parallels between her books in terms in near-Marvel hero terms: “Just asis doing something similar, showing that we have a culture that is afraid of sorrow and longing, and therefore unable to draw on its powers,” she tells me, and I have a brief vision of the soft-spoken Cain as a caped defender of the meek and romantically moody.
Before we part, I ask Cain if she thinks of her writing as self-help. “I do think they help the self,” she decides after mulling it over for a moment. “I don’t even know how that happened. It’s not like I set out to become a writer exploring hidden powers, but somehow that seems to be the call that I’m answering.”are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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