At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of he
r mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbl
ed. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to w
alk eleven-hundred miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert,
through California and Oregon, and into Washington state - and to do it alone.
