RaveThe Rupture... no one has done it quite like Alden Jones in her new critical memoir, The Wanting Was a Wilderness, in which Jones takes a scalpel to Cheryl Strayed\'s Wild, and then—having pinpointed what transformed the story of a hike into a massively popular memoir—simultaneously composes her own memoir, essentially testing her own theories on craft as part of the text ... What begins as a straightforward critical approach quickly morphs into something else, and the reader finds themselves engrossed in a piece of Jones\'s history, traveling with her ... The Wanting Was a Wilderness paints an earnest portrait of a searching nineteen-year-old woman and of the writer she later becomes.