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    "description": "After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. \u201cI was in \u2018the void,\u2019\u201d she writes, \u201ca vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.\u201d Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.\n\nOption B combines Sheryl\u2019s personal insights with Adam\u2019s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart\u2014and her journal\u2014to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl\u2019s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy.\n",
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