"i didn't realize until, you know, i'm actually writing a kind of historical memoir," she says. "It seems unimaginable to me to consider hiking 11 hundred miles in near solitude without a phone on the entire wilh the phone off the entire time." The book was inspired by her own experience with mental illness.
Cheryl Strayed battled through remarkable adversity—and the most intense of hikes—to emerge as one of the best American writers working today.