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A review by elderlyemo
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
I knew after about thirty pages that this book was going to be a five star read for me.
The narrative of this memoir, coupled with the parallels I saw between my own twenties, made this book so easy to read and so easy to feel - the grief, exhaustion, loss and hope pours off the pages with such unadulterated authenticity I find it hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't have a meaningful connection with CS and her ambitious, if underprepared, hike of the PCT in the wake of losing her mother to cancer.
The bigger moments of clarity in this book came to me through the themes of addiction, depression and sexuality that I wasn't anticipating going in. This book made me laugh out loud and cry, big deep, desperate sobs. I felt every moment of it and punch after punch I wondered how two women with decades and an ocean between them, could feel and think such similar things.
One of the best memoirs I've ever read and I will never stop recommending it.
Forever five stars.
The narrative of this memoir, coupled with the parallels I saw between my own twenties, made this book so easy to read and so easy to feel - the grief, exhaustion, loss and hope pours off the pages with such unadulterated authenticity I find it hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't have a meaningful connection with CS and her ambitious, if underprepared, hike of the PCT in the wake of losing her mother to cancer.
The bigger moments of clarity in this book came to me through the themes of addiction, depression and sexuality that I wasn't anticipating going in. This book made me laugh out loud and cry, big deep, desperate sobs. I felt every moment of it and punch after punch I wondered how two women with decades and an ocean between them, could feel and think such similar things.
One of the best memoirs I've ever read and I will never stop recommending it.
Forever five stars.