CHERYL STRAYED is the author of the #1 New York Times best seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 and became an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon;Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a national best seller now the basis of the WBUR podcast Dear Sugar Radio, co-hosted with Steve Almond; and Torch, her debut novel. Her books have been translated into forty languages, and her essays and other writings have appeared in numerous publications.
"Spectacular. . . . A literary and human triumph." -The New York
Times Book Review
"One of the most original, heartbreaking, and beautiful American
memoirs in years. . . . Awe-inspiring." -NPR
"An addictive, gorgeous book that not only entertains, but leaves
us the better for having read it. . . . Strayed is a formidable
talent." -The Boston Globe
"Strayed's language is so vivid, sharp and compelling that you feel
the heat of the desert, the frigid ice of the High Sierra, and the
breathtaking power of one remarkable woman finding her way-and
herself-one brave step at a time." -People (4 stars)
"Cinematic. . . . A rich, riveting story. . . . Our verdict: A."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Pretty much obliterated me. I was reduced, during the book's final
third, to puddle-eyed cretinism. . . . As loose and sexy and dark
as an early Lucinda Williams song. It's got a punk spirit and makes
an earthy and American sound. . . . The cumulative welling up I
experienced during Wild was partly a response to that too
infrequent sight: that of a writer finding her voice, and
sustaining it, right in front of your eyes." -Dwight Garner, The
New York Times
"Devastating and glorious. . . . By laying bare a great unspoken
truth of adulthood-that many things in life don't turn out the way
you want them to, and that you can and must live through them
anyway-Wild feels real in many ways that many books about
'finding oneself' . . . do not." -Slate
"Incisive and telling. . . . [Strayed] has the ineffable gift every
writer longs for of saying exactly what she means in lines that are
both succinct and poetic . . . an inborn talent for articulating
angst and the gratefulness that comes when we overcome it." -The
Washington Post
"Vivid, touching and ultimately inspiring account of a life
unraveling and of the journey that put it back together." -The
Wall Street Journal
"Brave seems like the right word to sum up this woman and her book.
. . . Strayed's journey is exceptional." -San Francisco
Chronicle
"Strayed's journey was at least as transcendent as it was
turbulent. She faced down hunger, thirst, injury, fatigue, boredom,
loss, bad weather, and wild animals. Yet she also reached new
levels of joy, accomplishment, courage, peace, and found
extraordinary companionship." -The Christian Science
Monitor
"Strayed . . . catalogs her epic hike . . . with a raw emotional
power that makes the book difficult to put down. . . . In walking,
and finally, years later, in writing, Strayed finds her way again.
And her path is as dazzlingly beautiful as it is tragic." -Los
Angeles Times
"A fearless story, told in honest prose that is wildly lyrical as
often as it is dirtily physical." -Minneapolis Star
Tribune
"Strayed writes a crisp scene; her sentences hum with energy. She
can describe a trail-parched yearning for Snapple like no writer I
know. . . . It becomes impossible not to root for her." -The
Plain Dealer
"Brilliant. . . . Cheryl Strayed emerges from her grief-stricken
journey as a practitioner of a rare and vital vocation. She has
become an intrepid cartographer of the human heart." -Houston
Chronicle
"A deeply honest memoir about mother and daughter, solitude and
courage, and regaining footing one step at a time." -Vogue
"Strayed's relationship with her environment is humble and
respectful, not exploitative. The landscape she travails is not a
prop for her self-actualization, but a real, physical world that
bewilders her, a world in which she learns she can survive
bewilderment. . . . Strayed bears the torn feet and bruised back of
a true pilgrim. Hers is high-voltage prose that challenges any
preconceived notions about what it means to be a woman alone, and
what it means to journey. . . . Wild will gather you up with
its tenderness. It will flay you with its honesty." -Los Angeles
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