Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

NATIONAL BEST SELLER - Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. - 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: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State--and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than "an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise." But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.

Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/20/2012
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780307592736

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


Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Winner
Award: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner
Award: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Oregon Book Awards - Winner
Award: Discover Great New Writers - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2011 pg. 59
Booklist 12/15/2011 pg. 9
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2012 pg. 70
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2012 pg. 2420
Entertainment Weekly 01/06/2012 pg. 77
Library Journal 02/15/2012 pg. 119
Outside 04/01/2012 pg. 46
People Weekly 03/26/2012 pg. 51
Shelf Awareness 03/27/2012
New York Times Book Review 04/01/2012 pg. 16
Entertainment Weekly 04/06/2012 pg. 76
New York Times Book Review 04/08/2012 pg. 30
Men's Journal 07/01/2012 pg. 42
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 34
Kirkus Best Nonfiction 12/01/2012 pg. 39
Entertainment Weekly 12/21/2012 pg. 73
Shelf Awareness 12/28/2012
People Weekly 12/31/2012 pg. 47
Entertainment Weekly 12/28/2012 pg. 105
SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2012 pg. 38
People Weekly 12/15/2014 pg. 73
BookPage 04/01/2012
Outside 06/01/2015 pg. 89
Entertainment Weekly 02/19/2016 pg. 120

About the Author
Cheryl Strayed is the author of Tiny Beautiful Things Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar and the novel Torch. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, The Rumpus, Self, The Missouri Review, The Sun, and The Best American Essays. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

www.cherylstrayed.com