The next "First Tuesday Book Club" will meet on September 4 at 6:30 pm in the blue meeting room. This month we are reading Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed.
Book summary: Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir:
the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young
woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. 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.
