![]() Equally passionate responses poured in from places as different as Outside Magazineand Vogue. ![]() The New York Times critic Dwight Garner described weeping over Wild, called it “loose and sexy and dark,” and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Then, in 2012, 17 years after she stepped back into civilization, she published a memoir about her time in the wilderness: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.īy that point, Strayed really was midway through her life, and it suddenly went a little berserk. ![]() She wrote, anonymously, “ Dear Sugar,” the cult-favorite advice column of the online literary magazine The Rumpus. Strayed wrote Torch, a semi-autobiographical novel that was quietly but kindly received. Nine days after she finished, she met a man in a Tex-Mex joint in Portland. Or a quarter-way, really: At the age of 26, motherless, divorced, dabbling in heroin, adrift from her stepfather and siblings and her own former self, Strayed made her way to California, hoisted a backpack, and set off to hike 1,100 miles in the wilderness, from the Mojave Desert to a place on the Oregon-Washington border called Bridge of the Gods. Midway on her life’s journey, Cheryl Strayed found herself in dark woods. ![]() Photo: Anne Marie Fox/Courtesy of Fox Searchlight ![]()
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