bIn her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon iQuieti reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we've been so blind to its value.b pWith iQuieti, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality, and love. pBittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow an acute awareness of time passing and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death--bitter and sweet--are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind--and, ultim