May Climate & Environment Book Club: Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Hi climate/book friends!

This month, we'll be reading the NYT-bestselling memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which inspired the well-known movie starring Reese Witherspoon. A brief summary of the book:

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. 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.

I think the book is a profound example of how engaging with nature reconnects us to ourselves and helps us move through grief. Please read as much of the book as you can before our meeting, but if you can't finish the entire book, no problem.

You can find the book on Amazon, Bookshop (support local bookstores), BetterWorldBooks (great deals on used books), or your local library/bookstore. You can also use [Libro.fm](https://libro.fm/) to download the audiobook and support a bookstore of your choosing.

OPTIONAL: If you'd also like to watch the movie based on the book so you can compare the two, you're welcome to do it (but I am not requiring you watch the movie for this meeting). It's available to rent for $3-4 online.

See you then!