{"id":98602,"date":"2017-02-15T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=98602"},"modified":"2017-07-07T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:39:09","slug":"books-thatll-make-you-a-more-empathetic-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/books-thatll-make-you-a-more-empathetic-person\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Books That’ll Make You a More Empathetic Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

With hundreds of political Facebook statuses to wade through each day and opinions growing more heated by the minute, it seems more important than ever to practice empathy, understanding, and connection.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for some way to do just that while making sense of all the noise around you, look no further. We\u2019ve compiled a list of fantastic books that we think will make you a more empathetic person. You\u2019ll find yourself completely captivated by the lives of people you\u2019ve never met — and who knows? You might even change your own.<\/p>\n

\"61bkOz+UVuL\"<\/a><\/em>“So You\u2019ve Been Publicly Shamed”\u00a0<\/a>by Jon Ronson<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis unbelievably empathetic book takes the time to listen and talk to those who\u2019ve been publicly shamed on the internet — something you might not have even known you were curious about until now.<\/p>\n

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\"51f1DbDo8TL\"<\/a><\/em>“Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity”<\/a>\u00a0by Katherine Boo<\/a><\/strong>
\nWe learn the true, heart-wrenching story of Mumbai families who face tragedy, inequality, and countless other burdens while trying to better themselves and their families.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>“The Year of Magical Thinking”<\/a>\u00a0by Joan Didion<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis acclaimed book chronicles the year after the author\u2019s husband\u2019s death, offering an almost distressingly intimate view of grief.<\/p>\n

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\"51hyDxgv5uL\"<\/a><\/em>“Dreaming in Cuban”\u00a0<\/a>by Cristina Garcia<\/a><\/strong>
\nA novel about a divided family\u2019s life in exile during the Cuban Revolution, this book has traces of Garcia\u2019s own life (she escaped from Cuba in 1961). Her ethereal, poetic style will keep you enchanted page after page.<\/p>\n

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\"411bJ++UXUL\"<\/a><\/em>“Tiny Beautiful Things”<\/a>\u00a0by Cheryl Strayed<\/a><\/strong>
\nThis collection of real advice columns addressed to their once anonymous recipient \u201cSugar\u201d grants us a peek into the lives of dozens of people…and teaches us that all the answers to all problems, like their owners, are complex.<\/p>\n

xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"With hundreds of political Facebook statuses to wade through each day and opinions growing more ...","author":1302382,"featured_media":98612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[260],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15103952\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-15-at-10.39.00-AM-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15103952\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-15-at-10.39.00-AM.jpg","formated_date":"February 15, 2017","category_name":"Life","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113832\/entertainment.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#02a9fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1302382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}