Truly gifted writers bring their own unique voice to whatever they write, in whatever format.
Cheryl Strayed, author of the best-seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is once such writer.
Her voice is distinctive and authentic, powerful and moving.
Her book Tiny Beautiful Things, Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar, a collection of advice columns, wrest the form from frumpiness.
To wit, in a multi-page reply to a devastated woman who miscarried: "It's a place of montrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. You have to work really, really hard to get there, but you can do it. Your ability to get there is evident to me in every word of your bright shining grief star of a letter."
Those words are a balm, a healing balm, from a fierce writer with an unmistakable voice.
Cheryl Strayed, author of the best-seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is once such writer.
Her voice is distinctive and authentic, powerful and moving.
Her book Tiny Beautiful Things, Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar, a collection of advice columns, wrest the form from frumpiness.
To wit, in a multi-page reply to a devastated woman who miscarried: "It's a place of montrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. You have to work really, really hard to get there, but you can do it. Your ability to get there is evident to me in every word of your bright shining grief star of a letter."
Those words are a balm, a healing balm, from a fierce writer with an unmistakable voice.
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