Carine McCandless is an entrepreneur, activist, and mother. She has been successfully self-employed since she started her first business at the age of nineteen. As a public speaker her presentations are featured in education and corporate venues across the United States. She is the sister of literary icon Chris McCandless and consulted closely with Jon Krakauer on his bestselling book Into the Wild. She also worked as a direct advisor and script contributor to Sean Penn for his film adaptation of the book. She lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her two daughters.
"The Wild Truth is a moving narrative of domestic abuse,
grief and survival, and for the perspective and revelations it
contains, an essential additon to the Into the Wild
story."--Newsweek
"A moving and revelatory saga."--Boston Globe
"Fiercely honest and gripping. . . . She honestly shares her
successes and failures in work and relationships as she comes to
the realization that she has tried to find in adult life what was
lacking in her childhood: worth, strength, and unconditional
love."--Publishers Weekly
"Powerful . . . gripping to read."--Examiner.com
"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets
the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of
readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic
violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and
propriety."--NPR.org
"A powerful book...For me, reading it was like finding a crucial
missing word in the middle of a crossword puzzle: once those
letters were filled in, the answers to the blank spaces around them
also cascaded into place."--Eva Holland, Vela
Magazine
"Helping her readers become more familiar with the overwhelming
burdens caused by dysfunctional parents is one of The Wild
Truth's major achievements. [McCandless] touches each of
us...[we] have a better sense of what drove her brother and
compelled her to write about her own harrowing
history."--Anchorage Press
"One of the driving points of The Wild Truth is that
[McCandless's] famous, ultimately fatal journey of adventure and
discovery was motivated in large part by a desire to escape his
parents...Carine's new book fleshes out the causes of Chris's
actions with much more detail and impact."--Outsideonline.com
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