NATIONAL BEST SELLER - Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. - A 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.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the
wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage
was soon destroyed. 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. 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.
Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record
snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. 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.