Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection.

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of the eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke straight down a young female reeling from catastrophe-and built her backup again.

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family dispersed and her own marriage was shortly damaged. Four years later on, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Path from about Wild: From Shed to On the Pacific Crest Path the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State-and to accomplish it only. She got no experience as a long-distance hiker, as well as the path was bit more than “an idea, hazy and outlandish and filled with promise.” Nonetheless it was a promise of piecing back again together a life that had arrive undone.

Strayed faces straight down rattlesnakes and black color bears, intense heating and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with ambiance and humor, Wild vividly catches the terrors and pleasures of 1 young female forging forward against all chances on a trip that maddened, strengthened, and eventually healed her.