Untamed
Untamed is Glennon Doyle's 2020 memoir, the third in a sequence that began with Carry On, Warrior and Love Warrior. The book opens with a story Doyle has told often since: at a Chicago book event in 2016, she walked into a room, saw the retired soccer star Abby Wambach across it, and thought without irony, There she is. Within a year she had ended her marriage to the husband she had so publicly forgiven for infidelity, come out, and built a blended family with Wambach and her three children. Doyle uses that pivot as the spine of a wider book about what she calls the cages women learn to live inside. She writes about her own bulimia and alcoholism, about the daughter she watched begin to silence herself, about the cheetah at the zoo, about the inner Knowing she had spent years overriding to be a good Christian wife. The voice is hot, plain, and unapologetic.
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What you might want to know about Untamed
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
On a fundraising trip to a small Florida zoo, Glennon Doyle watches a captive cheetah named Tabitha pace a fence and recognizes herself.
Yes. Glennon Doyle's Untamed is a memoir of her divorce from her husband, falling in love with soccer player Abby Wambach, and rebuilding her life on her own terms.
Doyle was raised in evangelical Christianity and writes critically about the church's gender norms. The book is spiritual but not denominational.
Untamed was written by Glennon Doyle, published in 2020 by Random House Publishing Group.
Untamed is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Untamed takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Untamed is a standalone novel by Glennon Doyle, not part of a series.
Untamed is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.