Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Annie Bloom's welcomes back Cheryl Strayed, author of the memoir Wild.
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the
wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage
was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she
made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest
Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington
State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance
hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish
and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a
life that had come undone.
Strayed faces down rattlesnakes
and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty
and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style,
sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the
terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds
on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
