The characters are real, and well articulated, and Strayed really brings them out on the page by writing each chapter from the point of view of one of the family members. I understand flawed characters, but there was nothing remotely likable about any of them, including their relationships with each other.

I don't know how true these details were to her story, but it was pretty clear that much of it was ripped directly from her life. It's about a mother who dies of cancer at 38 and how her family falls apart and does horrible things to each other in the aftermath, and how they start to rebuild their lives and relationships afterwards. This is a continuation of the custom operator tutorial, and introduces the API we’ve built for binding C++ classes into TorchScript and Python simultaneously. You know those days/weeks/God help you if it's months, when things just falling badly like dominos, one falling brick after another, until you are wondering if there is an ancient gypsy curse on your family or what.Strayed is an amazing essayist, but it just didn't translate in the novel genre - or not as strongly as I'd hoped. and then, because the pain, though it had lessened its bite somewhat, was still not going away, she decided to exorcise it by putting it all into writing. On its face, the plot is simple: a husband, son, and a daughter stumble, brokenhearted, toward the moment of Teresa Rae Wood's death and then spin, brokenhearted, away from that moment, out into their separate lives and separate griefs. From the pacing, to the structure (multiple 3rd person points of view), to the very real and very complicated characters, to individual sentences, this book is just beautifully crafted.

When reading "Wild," this particular section affected me so much that my husband stopped what he was doing (in the middle of playing an MMORPG, and that, ladies and gentlemen, means he thought it was an emergency) to come to the bedroom and investigate why his wife was bawling like the world was ending. En cada una de ellas se van diferenciando las etapas por las que suele transitar una persona desde que descubre que un ser querido está cerca de la muerta hasta que se cumple un año desde su fallecimiento.Especially considering the personal connection to the story and how that could actually get in the way of the writing, it really is well written and enjoyable to read.

In the months following Cheryl Strayed's "coming out" as the Dear Sugar advice columnist on The Rumpus, I've devoured her writing. The thought that went through my head at several points in the beginning sections of the book was, "If you copy from yourself, is it still plagiarism?

I realize that some people in this world - like the characters of this book (and its author, I've learned since finishing it) - turn to sex in times of grief, pain, and loss.