Story Description:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Group|March 20, 2012|Hardcover|ISBN: 978-0-307-59273-6
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 humour, 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.
My Review:
This was a phenomenal memoir! A page-turner that I read in a day and a half
packed full of drama, suspense, emotion, and great fortitude. Cheryl Strayed showed unbelievable strength
in pushing herself to the limit on this solo walk of eleven-hundred miles
across the Pacific Crest Trail. Her
ability to stare down the pain of her feet during her walk was unbelievable. That alone would have forced me to give up.
Wild
is a memoir you won’t soon forget nor will the
character that Cheryl showed during this incredible solo journey. I’ll most definitely be recommending this to
everyone.
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