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"I was on the edge of my seat. . . . It is
just a wild ride of a read . . . stimulating, thought-provoking,
soul-enhancing." --Oprah Winfrey, on Wild, first selection of her
Book Club 2.0"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)"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
"One of the most original, heartbreaking, and beautiful American
memoirs in years. . . . Awe-inspiring." --NPR Books "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 "Brave seems like the right word to sum up this
woman and her book. . . . Strayed's journey is exceptional." --San
Francisco Chronicle
"One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years. . .
. Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw,
compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to
be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time."
--Nick Hornby "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
"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 "This
isn't Cinderella in hiking boots, it's a woman coming out of
heartbreak, darkness and bad decisions with a clear view of where
she has been. . . . There are adventures and characters aplenty,
from heartwarming to dangerous, but Strayed resists the temptation
to overplay or sweeten such moments. Her pacing is impeccable as
she captures her impressive journey." --The Seattle Times
"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 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
"This is a big, brave,
break-your-heart-and-put-it-back-together-again kind of book.
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant
writer. She walked the PCT to find forgiveness, came back with
generosity--and now she shares her reward with us. I snorted with
laughter, I wept uncontrollably; I don't even want to know the
person who isn't going to love Wild. This is a beautifully made,
utterly realized book." --Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have
Shifted and Cowboys are My Weakness
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