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Welcome to the colourful comedian world of Pepita Sandwich, the place it’s at all times cool to cry. We don’t discuss our tears sufficient—no less than in accordance with the illustrator behind our Might SELF Properly-Learn Guide Membership choose. However The Artwork of Crying reveals simply how a lot catharsis that dialog can supply.

In her guide, Sandwich tackles tears from each angle, analyzing the worth of an excellent cry from scientific, historic, and cultural standpoints. That description may make it sound like a dense learn, however the guide is definitely (delightfully) the alternative: The playful, nostalgic, and comforting illustrations convey her findings and perspective to life in an extremely participating means. The under excerpt from The Artwork of Crying unpacks how gender roles have an effect on our attitudes towards shedding tears. Within the span of some pages (and a few touching graphics), Sandwich covers feminist actions, hormone ranges, and her personal first interval, all constructing to the identical vital takeaway: Everyone cries, as a result of we’re imagined to.