Torch

Torch
By: Cheryl Strayed
THREE out of FIVE stars

my thoughts:
Okay so I read Cheryl Strayed's 'Wild' and enjoyed reading it. I didn't find out about 'Torch' for a while later. I really really wish that I would have read this first.

Torch is  about how we deal with love and grief. How we struggle to make it day to day after loss. How we numb ourselves and then move through. We follow real people through these ups and downs.

There is Theresa, Bill, Cheryl and Josh. Each person goes through their own struggles their own battles. They're family but each person deals with each issue so differently.

The thing I liked most about this book is that it's real. This is real raw emotion that happens. The author could have buttered up a lot of the scenes. The fact is that isn't life. Life is what it is and that's exactly what is in this book the real life.


the run down:
In her debut novel, Torch, bestselling author Cheryl Strayed weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. "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 rebuilta 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