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Cheryl Strayed

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In 1995 Cheryl begins her hike in the Mojave Desert, and she hikes through California and Oregon to Washington, on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl's mother (Barbara/Bobbi)
Cheryl's stepfather (Eddie)
Cheryl's ex husband (Paul)
Joe
Lia (best friend)
People Cheryl met on the trail: Greg, Stacy, Doug & Tom, Rick, Richie, & Josh
Jonathan

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Cheryl's life had begun to spiral out of control after her mom died, so she decided she needed to go on this hike to rediscover her old self and get her life back on track.

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Wild is a memoir by Cheryl Strayed, about how and why she decided to take her 1,100 mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail. Cheryl describes the downhill spiral that became her life following the death of her mother and how she rediscovered herself.

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I recommend Wild because it shows how you can overcome anything even after you've completely lost yourself. Cheryl is very open in the book about her struggle with infidelity, drugs, and much more after the death of her mother.

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"But hiking the PCT was hard in a different way.  In a way that made the other hardest things the tiniest bit less hard.  It was strange but true... Perhaps the impulse to purchase the PCT guidebook months before had been a primal grab for a cure, for the thread of my life that had been severed." (pg. 95)

I think this quote is important to Cheryl's journey because it's a moment when she realized that no matter how hard the hike itself was (physically & mentally) she could make it through just like how she survived the death of her mother and so much else. She realized that this was what she needed to re4discover the old her that she lost.