RavePank MagazineThe elevator-pitch for Wild is that it\'s the story of a young, emotionally messed-up woman who decides to hike the PCT and does so without any substantive hiking knowledge or prior experience. That\'s the plot. And that plot is riveting. Wild is a page turner, a classic adventure tale full of wilderness dangers and physical hardships and sweeping vistas which Strayed heart-achingly renders in her clean, clear-eyed prose. This is a good read. A damn fine read. But it\'s something more than that, too. It has a purpose beyond the tales of bears and rattlesnakes and water filters and blisters ... Strayed is telling us more than just the details of how she managed to hike a thousand-plus miles. She\'s revealing to us (between her words and inside her words and around her words) a truth about ourselves and the strengths we may not even know we contain ... The result is so meaningful that the end made me cry.
