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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacifc Crest Trail is a 2012 memoir by Americanauthor Cheryl Strayed, describin her 1,100!mile hi"e on the Pacifc Crest Trail ina #ourney o$ sel$!disco%ery& The boo" reached 'o& 1 on the 'e( )or" Times *estSeller list, and (as the frst selection $or +rah-s *oo" Club 2&0&

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Plot summary

Wild is Cheryl Strayed-s frst!erson memoir o$ her 1,100!mile 71,800 "m9 hi"ealon the Pacifc Crest Trail $rom the o#a%e .esert throuh Cali$ornia and+reon to the border (ith Washinton State, and contains ;ashbac"s to rior li$eoccurrences that led her to bein her mountain!climbin #ourney&er ste$ather disenaed $rom Strayed-s $amily, and her brother and sisterremained distant& Strayed became in%ol%ed in heroin use, and e%entually she

and her husband di%orced& See"in sel$!disco%ery and resolution o$ her endurinrie$ and ersonal challenes, at ae 23, Strayed set out alone, on her 1,100!mile #ourney, ha%in no rior bac"ac"in e6erience& Wild intert(ines thestories o$ Strayed-s li$e be$ore and durin the #ourney, describin her hysicalchallenes and siritual reali?ations (hile on the trail&

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*y the time the boo" (as ublished, actress eese Withersoon-s flm comany,Pacifc Standard, had otioned Wild $or flm rihts, (ith Withersoon to ortrayStrayed in the mo%ie&

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