Wild

Review by Pamela Zoslov

In her memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed writes of her 1,100-mile journey on the PCT — a 2,663-mile hiking trail that runs from the U.S. Border with Mexico to the U.S.-Canada border — to heal herself after the death of her mother, her descent into heroin addiction and promiscuity, and her divorce. Strayed undertook the three-month solo desert trek without much knowledge or preparation, and the book details her injured feet, lost toenails, encounters with rattlesnakes, and the strain of her impossibly heavy backpack, dubbed “The Monster” by fellow hikers on the trail.