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. Strayed's account captures the agonies - both mental and
physical - of her incredible journey how it maddened and terrified her and how ultimately
it healed her. Wild is a brutal memoir of survival grief and redemption: a searing portrayal
of life at its lowest ebb and at its highest tide.
