Cheryl Strayed

When radio host Teresa Rae Wood receives an unexpected diagnosis of terminal cancer, her family begins to fall apart.

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Jeannette Ordas

I know the feeling of being embarrassed at your mom, hating her a bit too, while loving her so much and feeling utterly destroyed when she died way too soon, so I relate to the characters in this semi-autobiographical novel. So much felt familiar after reading Wild and that's not a bad thing. 3.5 stars.

Heather French

DNF. Compared to many other books about loss, I just don’t think this book does a good job of describing loss or making the characters seem human. I didn’t finish simply because I was bored and felt zero connection to any of the characters.

Summer Stanley

Boring. Couldn't get into it. I was disappointed because I so enjoyed Wild.

Chelsea Breher

I've read Strayed's other books so I felt compelled to read her first book. Overall I really liked it, it delt with a wide range of very important topics without being extremely overwhelming.

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Jessie

"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives to live by every day. She has fled a bad marriage and rebuilt a life with her children, Claire and Joshua, and their caring stepfather, Bruce. Their love for each other binds them as a family through the daily struggles of making ends meet. But when they received unexpected news that Teresa, only 38, is dying of cancer, their lives all begin to unravel and drift apart. Strayed's intimate portraits of these fully human characters in a time of crisis show the varying truths of grief, forgiveness, and the beautiful terrors of learning how to keep living.

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