This bestselling book from the writer of Wild collects the best from the Rumpus’s Dear Glucose advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Affluent with humor, understanding, compassion-and overall honesty-this book can be a balm for everything lifestyle throws our method.

Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you shed a family member; you can’t pay the bills-and it could be great: you’ve experienced the latest sex you will ever have; you obtain that plum work; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar-the once-anonymous online columnist in the Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild-is the person thousands turn to for advice.