I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.

Writing background
In addition to her books Wild Tiny Beautiful Things and Torch Strayed has publiCheryl Strayedd essays in various magazines including The Washington Post Magazine The New York Times Magazine Vogue Allure The Missouri Review and The Sun Magazine. In October 2012 "Torch" was re-issued by Vintage Books with a new introduction by Strayed. ISBN 978-0307949332
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Knopf on March 20 2012 and has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 2010 Strayed began writing the "Dear Sugar" advice column for the literary web site The Rumpus. Cheryl Strayed (born September 17 1968) is an American memoirist novelist and essayist.