Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed was lost. Set adrift by her mother's death and the sad dissolution of her own
marriage, Cheryl is desperate to find the woman her mother raised her to be. With no
experience or training, she would hike alone starting in the Mojave Desert through
California and Oregon and into Washington State on a mission to find herself again.

Through sheer determination and stubbornness, Cheryl pushes through when other more
experienced hikers decide to quit. Strayed's account on her experience and interaction on
the PCT are interwoven with her memories of her family and especially her mother's
influence. As Cheryl hikes, she works through the grief she feels for her mother and the loss
of her family. Ultimately, she is able to make peace with the ghost of her mother and the
ghost of past decisions.

This memoir is gritty and gorgeously dense with description of Strayed's inner turmoil and
the outward peace of the countryside. Both a mediation on grief and loss and a celebration of
the human spirit, Wild is a harrowing and humorous tale of finding oneself in the
wilderness.

This book contains adult language and situations. You have been warned.