A review by brookeringler
Wild by Cheryl Strayed

5.0

I've been going through books like crazy - I have read about a book a day the last five days. None of the books left me as sad to be finished as this one had. I truly wasn't ready for it to be over, goosebumps taking residence on my arms with the thought that the journey I just traveled with Cheryl Strayed is now over. While her story is very different than mine, for reasons different than her I also have the dream of long-distance backpacking. I am very humbled after reading this memoir.

"To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.

How wild it was, to let it be."