"I don't want to any way glorify the destructive things we do, because they are destructive," she says. "But i was always trying to movenn the direction of love and as you say, i did write about her." She adds: 'In so many ways, like i can't get my ma back through my writing, but i can get love specifically in that place of loss'
Cheryl Strayed battled through remarkable adversity—and the most intense of hikes—to emerge as one of the best American writers working today.