![]() ![]() Gail Honeyman’s debut is also a deeply heartwarming story about overcoming trauma and learning to let people in. She’s socially awkward to an intense degree and struggles with interacting with others. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanĮleanor Oliphant is one of the most original protagonists in modern fiction. ![]() Online influencer, artist, and writer Chidera Eggerue shares the important lessons she’s learned about loneliness and being alone, and why it’s not always a bad thing. What a Time to be Alone: The Slumflower’s Guide to Why You are Already Enough by Chidera Eggerue Rediscovering and redefining loneliness is all well and good, but what if you want to eradicate it from your life entirely? While I’d argue that’s probably not completely possible (we’re all going to feel alone sometimes), Kory Floyd offers six techniques for forming and improving interpersonal connections. The Loneliness Cure: Six Strategies for Finding Real Connections in Your Life by Kory Floyd If you’re looking for a book that shows being alone in a refreshing new light, check out essayist Rebecca Solnit’s reflections on wandering. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit Which, come to think of it, is kind of explicitly about loneliness, and how we can put an end to it. Instead, it addresses the concept of community and learning to recognize the humanity in others who might be different from yourself in profound ways. This book is less explicitly about loneliness. ![]()
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