Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Title: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Author: Cheryl Strayed 315 pages, published March 2012 Genre: Biography/Memoir Source: Borrowed from the Library I'm relatively new to Cheryl Strayed as an author. I read Tiny Beautiful Things and liked it, but didn't love it. Perhaps it was the style of the book (all in letters) that didn't work for me. However, a friend and fellow blogger Christina at The Wordy Rose has been raving about how fantastic Wild is for months --and now that I've read it, I completely understand why. It quickly made its way to my list of favorite books!! When Strayed was 22, her life fell apart. She lost her mother to cancer. Because of the grief, her family was torn apart. To make it worse, she went through a divorce. Four years later, she made an impulsive decision to hike a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) from the Mojave Desert in California to the Oregon/Washington border all by herself. Though she had