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TorchCheryl Strayed

Torch

2005336 pages
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"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…

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Editions

7 editions
  • Other · English · 2014
    Atlantic Books · 410 pages · 9781782395379
  • Other · English · 2012
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781299084261
  • Other · English · 2012
    Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House · 410 pages · 9780345805614
  • Other · English · 2007
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299897083
  • Other · English · 2007
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 336 pages · 9780547526805
  • Other · English · 2007
    Mariner Books · 336 pages · 9780618772100
DeathCancerMothersWomen in radio broadcastingFictionPatientsCancer in womenFiction, psychological