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Who is this book for? Readers interested in personal growth, travel, and memoirs.

Topics TravelSelf-discoveryOvercoming griefNature therapySolo journeyResilienceWilderness survivalPersonal growthCoping with lossFemale empowermentSurvivalGriefRedemption
MoodReflective, Hopeful
Female protagonist
HumorOccasional Humor
RomanceMinor Subplot
It was a world I’d never been to yet had known was there all along, one I’d staggered to in sorrow and confusion and fear and hope. A world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I’d once been. A world that measured two feet wide and 2,663 miles long. 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. [Wild is] ‘uplifting, but not in the way of many memoirs, where the uplift makes you feel that you’re committing mental suicide. This book is as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. It’s got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound.’ - The New York Times.

Language

en

Published on

08/01/2013

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780857897763

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