Her death sent Strayed, then 21, into a dark place of suffering and bad choices that ended her first marriage and led to a heroin problem. 5.ĭuring the mother-and-daughter’s senior year, though, Strayed’s mother died suddenly of cancer. Strayed returned to Minnesota to talk about life before and after the 2012 publication of her best-seller “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” (Random House).īig things started happening for this unknown writer after Oprah Winfrey selected “Wild” as the debut title for her “Oprah Book Club 2.0.” Now, with Strayed’s help, the book has been adapted into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon and will be in theaters Dec. Minnesota is where Strayed’s mother, Bobbi Lambrecht, died in 1991. Minnesota is absolutely sacred ground to me.” “Whenever I am here, I feel this place in my blood in a way that we can come to feel places as sacred in our lives. “Even though I was not born here, even though I don’t live here anymore, this is home to me,” said Strayed, who now lives in Portland, Ore. “It means so much to be in my home state, my beloved Minnesota,” Strayed told a full house gathered at Concordia University in St. Cheryl Strayed became famous after writing about walking and grieving on the Pacific Crest Trail, but the Midwest is a special place for her, too.
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