Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State--and she would do it alone.

Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/26/2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780307476074

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 155609 / Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail


Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 04/08/2013 pg. 55
New York Times Book Review 05/05/2013 pg. 28
Outside 10/01/2013 pg. 64
People Weekly 10/14/2013 pg. 59

About the Author
CHERYL STRAYED is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and became an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon;Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a national best seller now the basis of the WBUR podcast Dear Sugar Radio, co-hosted with Steve Almond; and Torch, her debut novel. Her books have been translated into forty languages, and her essays and other writings have appeared in numerous publications.