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Cheryl Strayed

2005322 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Houghton Mifflin · 322 pages · ENGISBN 9780618472178
  • 2007Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · ENGISBN 9781299897083
  • 2007Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780547526805
  • 2012Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781299084261
  • 2012Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House · 410 pages · ENGISBN 9780345805614
  • 2014Atlantic Books · 410 pages · ENGISBN 9781782395379
  • 2007Mariner Books · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780618772100

"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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