Wild

I love memoirs. There's something about people opening up about their own lives, digging deep into the meaning of life itself that is so beautiful to me. Cheryl Strayed writes about a months-long backpacking trek across California and Oregon on the Pacific Crest Trail, about all of the problems in her life that led her to that decision, all of the things that were broken about her at that time, and how her adventures alone in the wild ultimately healed her. It is intense, serious, brutal, sometimes disturbing, and yet, she writes with such humor, too, about running into bears and rattlesnakes, the people she met on the trail, and her own inner discoveries.