Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

#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. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century 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 he

I finally got around to reading this book. This was a very well crafted and authentic adventure story. It is fast paced and I found it hard to stop reading and put down.

This is both spiritually and physically inspiring in terms of hiking the PCT, I admire the authors self awareness in being able to confront her abandonment issues instead of moving forward with drug addiction and endless seeking. She learned to love herself, which all people need to do, no mother or husband will make up for a lack of self love. I didn't give it five stars because she misses that point, even people who have living mothers can still have the lack of self love referred to as the addicts hole