An incredible journey, both inward and outward.” Riveting.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times The cumulative welling up I experienced during Wild was partly a response to that too infrequent sight: that of a writer finding her voice, and sustaining it, right in front of your eyes. Strayed hammers home her hard-won sentences like a box of nails. “This isn’t Cinderella in hiking boots, it’s a woman coming out of heartbreak, darkness and bad decisions with a clear view of where she has been.” - The Seattle Times “One of the most original, heartbreaking and beautiful American memoirs in years.” -Michael Schaub, National Public Radio Oprah Winfrey, on Wild, first selection of her Book Club 2.0 stimulating, thought-provoking, soul-enhancing.” A breathtaking adventure tale and a profound meditation on the nature of grief and survival.
Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State-and to do it alone. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest TrailĪ powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe-and built her back up again.Īt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.
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