Opinion: Susan Cain's 'Bittersweet' is a good reminder that we can take some of the pandemic's pain with us, a little bit of useful darkness we could properly call wisdom.
At the beginning of the pandemic, when every window facing my Montreal home became colonized with rainbows exhorting “It will be OK,” “Ça va bien aller,” and the somehow French sounding “It is all going to be OK,” one curmudgeon at the more shaded edge of the street had a different idea. “WHO KNOWS?” his rainbow placard read. A neighbour told me the vibe killer down the road was actually a nice guy. And an epidemiologist.
I have as close a relationship to Cain as I possibly could to any writer of post-Gladwellian business-centric pop sociology whom I’ve never met. Cain’s first book, “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking” pretty much blindsided me with a completely new idea about myself — that I was, and had always been, an introvert.
Again, her timing is impeccable. There’s a lot of sorrow out there right now, and many questions about what to do with it. Cain writes about her own circumstances: during the pandemic, she lost both her father and her brother to COVID. Her mother has Alzheimer’s, with increasing dementia.
about books like Cain’s — as if not a single feeling tone or emotional resonance can just remain in the realm of the merely personal anymore. That everything must be named, that everything — even our dark moods — must becomeIn Cain’s book, there’s even a Bittersweet Quiz, so that those uncomfortable with soulful feelings can turn theirs into data. Questions include “Have others described you as an old soul?” and “Do you know what C.S.
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