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Non-Fiction · 2017 · PG

Option B

by Sheryl Sandberg

Option A is gone. She's learning to live with option B.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering

For10+GenreNon-FictionLength256 pagesRead time~6.5 hours

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Violence

None

No violence

Language

None

No language of note

Sexual Content

None

No sexual content

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Grief and its stages, resilience as a learnable skill, the particular pain of sudden loss with young children

What this book is about

When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's husband Dave Goldberg died suddenly of cardiac arrhythmia in 2015 while they were on vacation in Mexico, she was left with two young children and unimaginable grief. Working with Wharton professor and psychologist Adam Grant, Sandberg examines what research tells us about recovering from loss, rebuilding after tragedy, and finding meaning in the aftermath. Honest, research-grounded, and written from the inside of real devastation.

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grief memoir themes

sudden death of a spouse

suitable for anyone navigating loss

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