Dedra C. (abookwanderer) reviewed on 4/25/2015 + 43 more book reviews

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Wild is Cheryl Strayed's emotionally gripping account of survival through the devastating loss of her mother and the spontaneous and uninformed decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail through California and Oregon alone at the age of twenty-six. Strayed's tale is brazenly honest, highlighting the highs and lows of the decisions her grief led her to, the mistakes that shaped and molded who she became and led her on a path of healing. I identified with her love of books and words, admiring how she chose to describe things with clarity and precision. Oddly, I identified most with her aversion to math. She states, "I'd never had a mind for math. I simply couldn't hold the formulas and numbers in my head. It was logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story." Wild is a beautiful memoir about the depths of grief and the journey of ascending to placidity.

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