Question: In what year was the book Torch by author Cheryl Strayed published?
Context: Whale Song is a novel by Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif.  "Whale Song" was first self-published by Trafford Publishing in 2003.  In the spring of 2006, the novel was picked up by Kunati Inc.  Book Publishers, a Canadian publisher with offices in Ontario, Canada, and Florida, US and this second edition was released on April 1, 2007.  In 2010, Whale Song was published as a third edition by Imajin Books, in trade paperback and ebook editions. The Torch is a science fiction novel by author Jack Bechdolt.  It was first published in book form in 1948 by Prime Press in an edition of 3,000 copies.  The novel was originally serialized in the magazine "Argosy" in January 1920. Thubten Chodron, born Cheryl Greene, is an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States.  Chodron is a central figure in the reinstatement of the Bhikshuni (tib.  Gelongma) ordination of women.  She is a student of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and other Tibetan masters.  She has published many books on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and is the only nun who has co-authored a book with the Dalai Lama—"Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions". Colonel Edson Duncan Raff (November 15, 1907 – March 11, 2003) was a United States Army officer and author of a book on paratroopers.  He served as Commanding Officer (CO) of the first American paratroop unit to jump into combat, the 2nd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, near Oran as part of Operation Torch during World War II.  His book, "We Jumped to Fight", was based on his experience in that operation and was published in 1944. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar is a book written by the American author Cheryl Strayed.  The book was published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House Publishing, on July 10, 2012, and debuted at No. 5 on the "New York Times Best Seller list" in the advice and self-help category.  "Tiny Beautiful Things" is a collection of essays compiled from Strayed's "Dear Sugar" advice column, which she wrote anonymously, on "The Rumpus" online literary magazine. Julie Hayden (1938/39 — September 14, 1981) was an American short story writer and staff member at "The New Yorker" magazine.  In 1976, Viking Press published her only collection of short stories, "The Lists of the Past".  "Day-Old Baby Rats" is one of her famous stories, which was chosen and read in 2010 by writer Lorrie Moore on "The New Yorker" podcast with fiction editor Deborah Treisman.  Hayden's story collection was selected by bestselling author Cheryl Strayed for republication with Pharos Editions out of Seattle, and was published in May 2014. Cheryl Pallant (born in New York City) is a poet, author, dancer, performance artist, and professor who lives in Richmond, Virginia.  She has published several books of innovative poetry, a nonfiction book, and has been featured in several anthologies.  Her background as a writer and dancer has led to frequently merging these disciplines. Cheryl Strayed ( ; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American memoirist, novelist, essayist and podcast host.  The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published widely in national magazines and anthologies. Mother/Land is a book of poems by the Abenaki author and artist Cheryl Savageau published in 2006 by Salt Publishing.  According to Salt Publishing’s website, "Mother/Land" “radically re-maps New England as Native American space”. <ref name='"Mother/Land"'> </ref> The website for Dawnland Voices notes that some specific New England places that Savageau writes about in her poems include the Pemigewasset River in New Hampshire and Lake Quinsigamond in Massachusetts. Torch is the debut novel of American author Cheryl Strayed.  Published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by "The Oregonian" as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest.  The book presents the story of family crisis and grief through the failing health and subsequent death of a mother of two children in Minnesota.  The book is loosely based on the real life of the author.
Answer: 2006