Wild
Cheryl Strayed, 2012
A grieving, divorced twenty-six-year-old with no hiking experience walks the Pacific Crest Trail alone—and finds a way back to herself.
Cheryl Strayed
Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 launched in 2012 with Wild as its first selection; the film with Reese Witherspoon followed in 2014.
Feels like grief, memory and solitude.
The wilderness grief leaves you in, and the years it takes to walk out.
It took me years to take my place among the ten thousand things again. To be the woman my mother raised. To remember how she said honey and picture her particular gaze. I would suffer. I would suffer. I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn’t know where I was going until I got there. Books by Cheryl Strayed
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