At twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer her family disbanded & her marriage crumbled With nothing to lose she made the most impulsive decision of her life to walk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America & to do it alone She had no experience of long-distance hiking & the journey was nothing more than a line on a map But it held a promise
- a promise of piecing together a life that lay shattered at her feet