Wild by Cheryl Strayed ✔✔✔✔

One of the best memoirs I've read in a long time - ranks right up there with The Glass Castle.
Cheryl is a young woman of 22 when her mother dies from cancer at the age of 44, and it's a wrenching description of how the disease claimed her mother's life so quickly.  Four years later, Cheryl embarked on this journey - hiking over 1000 miles across the Pacific Coast Trail - and did it all alone.
The people she meets along the way, the problems she faces with snow and cold, running out of money, constant agony from her hiking boots, make for riveting reading. I found I couldn't put it down.