She is the friend we all need who will give it to you straight and either hold you as you cry or push you to be the person you know you can be. I can definitely see the draw of Strayed's writing style. I loved how the book was broken down into sections and I enjoyed pacing myself through the different "stories". This book really had it all and was one of my best reads this year. Sometimes I got teary eyed and other times I downright ugly cried. Yes, there were uncomfortable parts, and depressing parts, and downright terrible parts, but there were also hopeful and courageous parts, and parts that made my heart a little lighter. I had never heard of or read anything about Cheryl Strayed/Dear Sugar, which ended up being a wonderful thing.
My sister recommended this book to me after it was recommended to her by a mutual friend. For a regrounding in the beauty of what it means to be flawed and gorgeously human, for answers that feel real whether we've been able to ask the right question, Strayed's caring little essays offer surprisingly rich comfort. Sugar can be tough and honest (to the same struggling writer: "buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core"), but she's never mean: in Sugar's world, we all deserve love unconditionally, but also owe it to ourselves to act in the world to be the best, most authentic selves that we can be. In casually intimate prose (to a struggling writer: "dear sweet arrogant beautiful crazy tortured talented rising star glowbug") and literary grace, she creates moments of wise, compassionate insight in often startlingly personal miniature memoirs, cradling gentle but practical guidance with enough humor to cement Strayed's presence as both a mentor and the most understanding of friends. Strayed (Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail), in this collection of advice (some previously unpublished) for readers of her column "Dear Sugar" on, chooses thought-provoking questions from her readers and listens deeply to their emotional content.
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