Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Summary
Sheryl Sandberg

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Overview

“Option B” is part personal memoir, part self-help book, and part investigation into the science of resilience, which the author defines as the human capacity to respond to adversity. As the author describes her experiences with both grief and healing in the aftermath of her husband’s death, she describes ways in which the principles and practices of resilience can apply not only in traumatic situations but in day-to-day life. Consideration of those principles and practices manifest the work’s other central themes – explorations of creating space for emotion, of transforming self-care into social activism, and of the power of community.