Sometimes their stories were about grief and loss. Sometimes their stories were about wilderness adventures or long, life-altering trips. Strayed chose to release the cut scene as a gift to her dedicated readers over the past years, “who told me their own wild stories after they read mine. I don’t remember why I decided to cut that passage, but one must be ruthless in writing, so it went away-only to re-emerge here, all these years later.” Writes Strayed in her Substack, “It made my heart both race and sink to read to remember a younger, more reckless version of myself. The scene takes place right before Strayed begins her hike-before she flies to Mojave, she calls an ex-lover and does heroin with him in Portland. The cut scene is available to read on Strayed’s Substack, Dear Sugar, which publishes advice in a similar tone to the “Dear Sugar” column in her book Tiny Beautiful Things as well as other nonfiction pieces from Strayed. Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection: This special eBook edition of Cheryl Strayed’s national best seller, Wild, features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide.It’s been ten years since the release of Wild, Cheryl Strayed’s bracingly honest memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail as a young adult after her mother’s death with no experience or training-and to ccelebrate the anniversary, Strayed has released a cut scene from Wild, free to read online. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State-and she would do it alone. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed.

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.Īt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed