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kerryamchugh's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Somehow, despite rereading TBT more times than I can count, I've never read Torch. Perhaps because it is gut-wrenchingly sad, or perhaps because I was worried it would change my perception of Strayed as a writer.
While it IS gut-wrenchingly sad, it didn't at all change my perception of Strayed's skills. This is a novel made up of characters, not plot, zooming in and out of the very mundane, yet enormous, reactions they each have to grief - so different as to send what was once a close-knit family scattered in many directions.
Major tw for grief, loss, cancer.
While it IS gut-wrenchingly sad, it didn't at all change my perception of Strayed's skills. This is a novel made up of characters, not plot, zooming in and out of the very mundane, yet enormous, reactions they each have to grief - so different as to send what was once a close-knit family scattered in many directions.
Major tw for grief, loss, cancer.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use
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