![]() ![]() ![]() Though she and Eddie sat at Bobbi’s side every day she was in the hospital, in Bobbi’s final days, the family had already begun to break apart. After her mother Bobbi dies, Cheryl struggles to keep the disparate threads of her family together. Ultimately, Strayed suggests that grief and loss are extreme, unpredictable forces that have the power to either send people scattering in disparate directions-or bring them together in shared, collective mourning and healing.Īt the start of the book, it seems as if grief creates only one outcome: a breakdown in connection. Over the course of Wild, Cheryl learns that loss has the potential to pull people apart, but can also, amazingly, do the opposite. As Cheryl’s nuclear family grows more and more distant in the wake of their shared loss, Cheryl begins to believe that that’s simply what loss does: it divides and estranges people at the moment when they should be coming together in mutual grief. In the wake of her mother’s untimely death at the age of forty-five, Cheryl Strayed loses more than just a parent and a best friend-slowly, little by little, she begins to lose her family too. ![]()
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