![]() ![]() ![]() We were both seniors in college at the time. ![]() You took this walk to recover from the loss of your mother, who had lung cancer and passed away within three months.ĬHERYL STRAYED: Seven weeks to the day after her diagnosis with cancer. JENNIFER SKY: Wild, your first memoir, is about your 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. We sat down with Strayed in Chicago, almost one year after our first meeting, to talk about the soundtrack in the mind, finding your most savage self, and scars that we eventually shed. Her new memoir, Wild, is a tale of facing those things that may just break us, written by a woman who’s had her own kind of breakout recently-she was revealed last month to be the author of Dear Sugar, literary website The Rumpus’s much-beloved advice column. The thing was, she had never backpacked before and was set on going out alone-a beautiful blonde woman determined to hike ice, rock, and snow for over a thousand miles. After years of grasping to come to terms with her mother’s death, she found a book on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. ![]() In weeks, she watched her mother pale, wither, and pass away. Cheryl Strayed was 22 when she first brought her mother through the doors of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. ![]()
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