Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Cheryl Strayed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857897764 ISBN 13: 9780857897763

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2013

At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington state - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.

Review:

I love this book. I want to shout it from the mountaintop. --Oprah Winfrey
Angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written... It is destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time --Nick Hornby, The Believer
Epic and moving --Sunday Times
Funny and fierce --Independent on Sunday
Amazing and inspiring --Nicole Kidman
Extraordinary... Truly wild: dirty, beautiful, serene --Sunday Telegraph
It's not very manly, the topic of weeping while reading... Wild pretty much obliterated me --Scotsman
A deeply honest memoir about mother and daughter, solitude and courage, and regaining footing, one step at a time. --Vogue

From the Author:

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Torch, the huge New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and the collection of essays Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who's Been There. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Allure and The Rumpus. She lives in Portland, Oregon.