Cry, Baby: Why Our Tears Matter by Benjamin Perry (.ePUB)+
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Cry, Baby: Why Our Tears Matter by Benjamin Perry
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Overview: What happens when we cry—and when we don’t?
One of our most private acts, weeping can forge connection. Tears may obscure our vision, but they can also bring great clarity. And in both literature and life, weeping often opens a door to transformation or even resurrection. But many of us have been taught to suppress our emotions and hide our tears. When writer Benjamin Perry realized he hadn’t cried in more than ten years, he undertook an experiment: to cry every day. But he didn’t anticipate how tears would bring him into deeper relationship with a world that’s breaking.
Cry, Baby explores humans’ rich legacy of weeping—and why some of us stopped. With the keen gaze of a journalist and the vulnerability of a good friend, Perry explores the great paradoxes of our tears. Why do we cry? In societies marked by racism, sexism, and homophobia, who is allowed to cry—and who isn’t? And if weeping tells us something fundamental about who we are,…
Genre: Non-Fiction > Health, Fitness & Self-help
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